The Form contextual ribbon toolbar provides access to most of the functionality for creating and editing forms and form objects. It is available when a form window is active. This section briefly describes the buttons on the Form toolbar.
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Click the Model Builder button (
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Click the New Form button (
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Click the New Method button (
 ) to create a new Method node in the model and open its code in a new editor tab. See The Method Nodes and Method Editor Windows. |
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Click the Preview button (
 ) to show or hide the Preview window for a live preview of the forms and methods in the application. In the Preview window you can scroll to get a preview of all forms and methods in the application. This can be useful, for example, if you are working on a method that interacts with a form. To show a preview of a form in the Preview window, select a form or method node in the Application Builder window. |
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Click the New Form button (
 ) to create a new form using the New Form wizard. See Working with a Form and Using the New Form Wizard. |
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Click the Insert Object button (
 ) to open a menu where you can choose from all types of form objects and add them to the current form. See The Form Objects. |
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) to switch to the grid mode. See |
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) to switch to the sketch mode. See |
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) to add or remove an overlaid grid in the form window.|
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) to open a menu with tools to align the selected form objects.|
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Click the Row Settings button (
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Click the Column Settings button (
 ) to choose from a menu of settings for the row size for the selected columns. See Row and Column Settings. |
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Click the Insert button (
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Click the Remove button (
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Click the Align button (
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) to split the selected cell. See |
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Click the Extract Subform button (
 ) to extract the selected cells from the current form and insert them in a new form. See Extracting a Subform. |
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Click the Rows & Columns button (
 ) to open a dialog box where you can specify the number of rows and columns in the grid. See Row and Column Settings. |
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Click the Test Application button (
 ) to launch the application in a separate window so that you can test it. See Testing the Application. |
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Click the Apply Changes button (
 ) to compile and apply code changes to the running application (so-called hot code swap). See Applying Changes to a Running Application. |
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Click the Preview Form button (
 ) to open a window that contains a preview of the form. See Previewing and Testing the Form. |
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Click the Test in Web Browser button (
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The View section contains buttons for rearranging the views in the Application Builder desktop window.
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) and 
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) to reset the desktop layout to the default state.