VFDIDE : Form Designer Features at a glance - (Level 1)

Description Screenshots
A very intuitive on screen WYSIWYG-Resource Editor gives you an immediate WYSIWYG view of the form currently beeing under design

Color Screen
Control Toolbar to add controls to selected form
On Screen WYSIWYG-Menu Editor
On Screen WYSIWYG-Alertbox Editor
Support of Bitmaps (also in color) and Strings
Multiple Resources (Forms) designable at the same time inside one project
A set of neat little features such as:
  • Context Menus
  • Select visible Controls
  • Controls outside Forms in grayed
  • Selectable Controls
  • Full mouse moving and sizing manipulation
Various different possibilities of control manipulation.
All with full mouse support.
Has an immediate Properties View of the selected Control incl. Property Description

Property Type detection for:
  • Field Entry
  • Combo Box Entry
  • Popup Dialog Entry
  • etc.
Font Selection popup incl. Custom Fonts
List Item definition popup
Has a realistic Bitmap view inside the Form. The bitmap is realy shown as a bitmap thus enabling you to develop a grafical user interface even without any grafical programming expirience.
Supports string preview in WYSIWYG and auto wraps the strings in Alert Boxes incl. octal character set
Control Bounds indicator (switchable)
Grid with defineable origin and different sizes for width and height.
And - needless to say - a SnapToGrid function for convenient Control positioning and resizing (switchable)
Lock Controls to avoid moving or sizing by fault (switchable)
Transparent / non-Transparent Control View (switchable)
Automatic Resource File generation and compilation incl. optional consistency check



And many, many more .................