This control allows the user to ‘scribble’ or draw free-hand text. It is very useful for capturing signatures, quick drawings, etc…
NOTE: The current version of abcDB has a maximum of 40 labels, 40 textboxes, 7 dropdowns, 6 buttons, 14 checkboxes, 1 grid, 4 datepickers, 1 image, 1 scribble and 1 tab per form.
The Scribble control supports the following properties.
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Property Name |
Description |
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Back Color |
Background Color |
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Bound Field |
The Field from which this SCRIBBLE will receive it’s data, or in other words, the field that this SCRIBBLE will be ‘bound’ to. NOTE: This field MUST be a field of type
OLE. |
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Fore Color |
The foreground color of this SCRIBBLE. |
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Tag |
You can use the Tag property to specify or determine the string that identifies the name of a SCRIBBLE. Thereafter, the contents of that SCRIBBLE can be referred to elsewhere in the application using the syntax ~TAGNAME~. This is useful especially for using the SCRIBCLEAR(), SCRIBSAVE() and SCRIBFSAVE() commands. (See Appendix for details) |
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Visible |
Specifies whether this SCRIBBLE will be visible or invisible |
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Height |
The height of this SCRIBBLE in Twips* |
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Width |
The width of this SCRIBBLE in Twips* |
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Left |
The horizontal location of the top-left corner of this SCRIBBLE in Twips* |
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Top |
The vertical location of the top-left corner of this SCRIBBLE in Twips* |
TabPage
If a tab-control is present on the form, this
property determines which 'page' of the tab this control will be located
on. 0-Not on tab.
The Scribble control does not support any EVENTS.