Modifying Style Characteristics

The style characteristics of objects in your display can be modified using options from the STYLE menu. These options include

• DISPLAY MODE option

• COLOR option

• BORDER option

DISPLAY Mode

The display mode of any object can also be modified. First select the objects whose display mode you wish to adjust. Next pull down the STYLE menu and choose the DISPLAY MODE option.

Cascading menus enable you to choose

• a NORMAL display mode

• an INHERITED display mode (that is, a display mode inherited from the object's parent)

• one or more of the following display modes: REVERSE, HIGH INTENSITY, UNDERLINE, BLINK

Color

The foreground (pen) color and background (fill) color of any object can also be modified. First, select the objects whose color you wish to adjust. Next, pull down the STYLE menu and choose either the PEN COLOR or the FILL COLOR option.

Cascading menus enable you to choose

• one of 16 standard colors

• an inherited color (that is, a color inherited from the object's parent)

• one of the desktop colors

Border

Certain objects can be assigned a border. First, select the objects whose border you wish to adjust. Pull down the STYLE menu and choose the BORDER option. You can choose from NO BORDER, BORDER, SHADOW, or DEFAULT.

DEFAULT sets the form field to its default border status (e.g., by default, labels have no border, while entry fields do have a border).

SHADOW is available only for button objects display mode and this option is ignored in MS-Windows.

If an object's size is less than 3 rows by 3 columns, a border is not visible; in the MS-Windows environment, the border is always visible.

Default Style

If no objects are selected when you access the style menu, your selections for color, and border define defaults that are to be applied to all objects that are subsequently added. For example, if you choose "red" as the default fill color, the fill color of all objects added thereafter is red.