Painter Controls

The Painter toolbox is a drag and drop system used to design and construct screen interfaces, with which your user interacts with your deployed application. It allows you to add simple graphical objects such as lines and images as well as add graphical objects such as edit boxes and radio buttons, which are bound to an attribute as its data source.

The combo box at the top of the window allows you to select a language from the list of available languages.

As with EA Developer 3.3, an optional form grid provides horizontal and vertical guidelines to help you align objects on your form.

To open Painter for an element, perform the following:

  1. Highlight the element and check that its PresentationType property is set to an appropriate value, other than None.

  2. In Class View, double-click the element. The Designer window for the element is displayed.

  3. Select the Painter tab. If presentation elements already exist for the element, they is displayed.

  4. If the Painter Toolbox is not displayed, choose View > Toolbox (or CTRL + ALT + X) and select the SM Painter tab.