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Working with the Form Designer and the Menu Designer
8. Repeat the first seven steps to add a File Save button. Place it to the right of the
File Open button. Name it FileSaveBtn and use the filesave.bmp file for the
glyph.
The form should now look like Figure 7.15.
Figure 7.15.
The ScratchPad
form up to this point.
Step 5: Adding a Status Bar
Okay, so far, so good. Windows Notepad doesn’t have a status bar (or a speedbar, for that
matter), but we’ll put one in our application (we’re cooler!):
1. Click on the Win95 tab on the Component Palette and choose the StatusBar
component.
2. Click anywhere on the form. The status bar is automatically placed at the bottom
of the form. The status bar has a default Align value of alBottom.
3. Change the Name property to StatusBar.
Step 6: Adding the Memo Component
We need some component in which to type text, so we’ll use a memo component (believe
it or not, we’re almost done with our prototype):
1. Click on the Standard tab on the Component Palette and choose a Memo component.
Place the memo anywhere on the client area of the form.
2. Change the Name property to Memo.
3. Change the WordWrap property to True (if necessary).
4. Double-click the Value column next to the Lines property. The String List Editor
is displayed. Delete the word Memo and click OK.
5. Change the Scrollbar property to ssVertical. (Initially, we only want a vertical
scrollbar on the memo.)
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