About ATEasy Internal Controls

This chapter describes the different sorts of controls which you can place on an ATEasy form to collect or display information.

 

Topic

Description

AButton

Clicking buttons to perform actions.

AChart

Displaying data in a chart.

ACheckBox

Choosing options with a checkbox.

ACommonDialog

Adding file, print, and color dialogs to your application.

ALabel

Using the label to display text.

ATextBox

Using the textbox to enter text.

AGroupBox

Grouping controls with the group box.

AImage

Displaying images in your form.

AImageList

Storing images in an indexed list for use with AToolBar

AListBox and AComboBox

Displaying choices with list and combo boxes.

ALog

Writing text and graphical test results to the log.

APanel (ATEasy v5)

Container control. Used to group several controls under same container. Hiding this control will hide all its controls.

ARadioButton

Using the radio button to make choices.

AScrollBar

Scrolling with the scrollbar.

ASlider

Using sliders for input and output.

AStatusBar

Reporting status of program conditions via paned statusbar.

ASwitch

Using switches as input devices.

ATab (ATEasy v5)

Allows definition of multiple pages for the same area of a form. Each page consists of a certain type of information or a group of controls that the application displays when the user selects the corresponding tab.

Form Text and Graphics

How to draw text and graphics on a form.

ATimer

Scheduling events with the timer.

AToolBar

Creating a toolbar of buttons to perform different actions.