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Creating your first Form

The PARIS Designer32 User’s Manual

Adding a static form element

You are now ready to design a simple form around the text blocks created in the
model environment.

To begin with, we will add some boxes and lines (in the next step we will change the
added elements).

To add a box :

Click on the Box tool in the Tools Bar. When the tool is selected, the attributes
for the tool are also displayed in the Tools Bar for selection (such as border
type, fill, line thickness).

Click on the screen where you want the box to start. (Begin by drawing a box
around the Travel History, so click near the top left corner of text block 3).

Move the cursor across and down to the diagonal corner position, according to
the size you want for the box, and click again. The added box will be displayed.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 to add another box around the Summary (text block 2).

NOTE

Remember, click means ‘quickly press and release the mouse button once’

. Do not

hold the mouse button down to draw an element.

Next, select the Line tool and add a line above the Membership Details (text block 1).

To add a line :

Click on the Line tool in the Tools Bar. When the tool is selected, the attributes
for the tool are also displayed in the Tools Bar for selection.

Click on the screen where you want the line to start.

Move the pointer across to draw a horizontal line above the Membership
Details, then click again. (Move the pointer down to draw a vertical line.)

Once you have added an element, it can be changed, edited, moved, copied or
deleted. In the sections that follow we will show you how to edit and copy the line,
and how to change other elements.