Form Type

PML Customisation User Guide


Type of Form	Description
MAIN	The form that will be swapped to as a Main form. These forms are not usually displayed directly, but serve to provide gadgets for the application’s toolbar and menus for the application’s main menus.
DOCUMENT	Resizable form usually with a view gadget, but no menu bar. All document forms can be floated or un-floated using the right-mouse popup menu in the form’s top border. When it is floating, you can drag the form away from the MDI frame and position it and resize it without constraint. This allows you to drag the document form away to another screen of a multi-screen configuration.
DIALOG	This is the default type the form will assume if you gives no type when you set up the form. The default DIALOG form will be non-resizable, floating, and non-docking. You can specify the DOCKING attribute to allow the form to be docked within the application frame. By default, a docking dialog is displayed floating, and you can interactively dock it. When a dialog is docked it will be resized to match the application frame edge to which it is docked, and so is resizable by default. The qualifiers LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, and BOTTOM, specify the edge of the application frame to which the dialog form will be docked when first displayed.
BLOCKINGDIALOG	Normal form layout and content, but will block access to all other forms while it is displayed.


Setup Code	Description
layout form !!myform dialog dock left	Creates a resizable docking dialog;
layout form !!myform dialog resizable	Creates a resizable floating dialog;
layout form !!myform dialog	Creates a non-resizable floating dialog;
layout form !!myform	Creates a non-resizable floating dialog;
layout form !!myform document	Creates a resizable MDI child document;
layout form !!myform document Float	Creates a floating resizable non-MDI document.