The Form Editor features a number of tools to facilitate quick and easy form design. The following features are discussed in this section, in the order that they appear in the Editor Toolbars: layering, group/ungroup, setting alignments, space distribution, same element size, and anchoring.
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Elements can be arranged from the front to the back layers using the bring forward (1), send backward (2) send to front (3) and send to back (4) buttons on the Layering toolbar. The first two buttons send the selected item front or back one layer at a time; the latter two buttons send items all the way to the front or back of form.
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Elements can be grouped using the group (1) ungroup (2) buttons on the Reorganize toolbar.
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The Align toolbar contains buttons for aligning elements (1-left, 2-right, 3-top, 4-bottom, 5-center, and 6-middle).
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The Distribute toolbar contains buttons for setting space distribution of selected elements.
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Note: The default spacing for these two options can be changed by accessing Preferences in the contextual menu and setting the Small Offset value to the desired spacing. |
The Same Size toolbar allows you to set the same width (1) or same height (2) for the a group of selected elements.
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Anchor settings determine how the layout of elements change when an end-user resizes the application window.
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The Editor Preferences toolbar allows you to visualize anchoring indicators, which can then be used to modify anchoring settings for an element.
The anchoring indicator appears as a gray box to the top right of the selected element.
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To set the desired anchoring option:
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