InterForm Manual - System & Method

Starting the Graphical Designer
If you have chosen to install a shortcut or Quick launch during install you can click on that
to start up the graphical designer. The icon looks like this:
You can also start up the graphical designer by selecting ‘Start’, ‘Programs’, ‘InterForm’,
‘InterForm Design’ and ‘InterForm Design’.
You will be presented with this screen:
State your user profile, password and the
Netserver name or IP-address of the iSeries, that
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you run InterForm400 on and click on ‘Login’.
Wait about 10 seconds (depending on the PC and
the iSeries) and the graphical designer will start
up.
If you are not a registered user of InterForm400 or
if you do not have access to any file sets in
InterForm400 you will be refused access with the
error ‘Lost connection to the host’ followed by
another message indicating the exact problem.
If you are not a registered user of InterForm400 you can do that as described on page
296. You can get access to file sets by using option ‘9=File set access’ in the same
screen.
Improving performance of the designer
If you want to speed up the graphical designer you can do this:
On the logon screen you need to click on the ‘Advanced settings’ tab. For maximum
performance you can consider either of these settings:
a) Disable ‘Render 2D graphics in high quality’. This will reduce the quality of the
rendering a bit.
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