Scribble Control

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.

Property Name

Description

Back Color

Background Color

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.

Fore Color

The foreground color of this SCRIBBLE.

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)

Visible

Specifies whether this SCRIBBLE will be visible or invisible

Height

The height of this SCRIBBLE in Twips*

Width

The width of this SCRIBBLE in Twips*

Left

The horizontal location of the top-left corner of this SCRIBBLE in Twips*

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.