This section describes how to develop the basic look and function of the individual controls in an application window. This process is accomplished by manipulating the control's initial properties.
There are two different processes available to manipulate a control's properties. The first technique is to access the control's properties from within the Project Manager window by selecting the specific control in the left windowpane and accessing its available properties in the right windowpane.
Once you are in the Form Editor, you may still move to the Project Manager window and manipulate form and control properties without closing the form editing session.
If you change a form's properties or one of its controls' properties in the Project Manager window, the change will appear immediately in the active form editing session.
There is a second technique for manipulating form and controls properties from within an active form editing session, without returning to the Project Manager window.
To do this, simply right-click the mouse once on the control or form whose properties you wish to manipulate and select Properties from the pop-up menu.
Alternatively, after selecting a form or control whose properties you wish to manipulate, you may select Properties from the Edit menu.
For example, if you move the mouse over a push button control named CmCommand1 and right-click the mouse once on it and then select Properties from the pop-up menu, you will be presented with the following window:
Figure 4.6 The Properties dialog box for a command button control
You may access this control's properties by selecting the appropriate tab in the Properties dialog box and changing any specific property. Clicking on Apply or OK after changing a property will apply the change immediately.
