Designing Forms

Visual FoxPro provides you with a powerful Form Designer to make form design fast and easy. You can have:

• Various types of objects on the forms.

• Data bound to objects on the form.

• Top-level or child forms.

• Multiple forms that can be manipulated together.

• Forms based on your own custom templates.

Forms and form sets are objects with their own properties, events, and methods that you can set in the Form Designer. A form set consists of one or more forms that can be manipulated as a unit. If you have four forms in your form set, for example, you can display or hide them as a unit with a single command at run time.

In This Section

• How to: Create a New Form
  Describes the three ways to create forms in Visual FoxPro. Additionally, it explains ways to modify a form once it has been created.

• How to: Set the Data Environment
  Explains how to set the data environment for a form and how to perform common tasks such as adding a table or view or setting an index using the Data Environment designer.

Reference

• Form Designer
  Describes the Visual FoxPro Form designer.

Related Sections

• Creating Forms
  Describes creating forms.

• Creation of Single- and Multiple-Document Interfaces
  Describes the two types of applications possible in Visual FoxPro and the types of forms that support both types of interfaces. Includes links to topics dealing with the various form types.

• Manipulating Objects
  Provides links on how to manipulate objects in the Form designer.

• How to: Specify a Form Type
  Describes how to specify the a form to one of the three form types: child form, floating form, or top-level form.