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General Tab, Application Builder

  • Article

Enables you to specify the application name. This tab also enables you to specify other option features including, splash screen, startup form, and the type of application.

  • Name
    Specifies the friendly name of your application used in the application titlebar and About dialog box and throughout your application.

  • Image
    Specifies the file name of the image used in the splash screen and the About dialog box of your application.

  • Application Type
    These option buttons enable you to specify the way your application runs.

  • Normal
    Application will run in the main Visual FoxPro window. Your application takes over the entire Visual FoxPro environment including the system menu.

  • Module
    Application is added to an existing project or called from another application. The application adds a single menu pad and menu to the existing system menu, and therefore functions as a component of another application.

    Note   Because modules do not issue READ EVENTS or alter existing Visual FoxPro environment settings, they function well when called by other applications, or at design-time in the Visual FoxPro development environment.

  • Top-Level
    Application runs on the Microsoft Windows desktop. With Top-Level applications, the Visual FoxPro desktop is not necessarily visible. Provides a Windows MDI interface with more flexibility than _SCREEN because you can subclass it.

  • Common Dialogs
    These check boxes let you include any or all of the following dialog boxes in your application:

  • Splash Screen
    Specifies whether the application starts by displaying the Image file and credits in an opening screen.

  • Quick Start form
    Specifies whether to use a Quick Start form that provides access to application documents and access to other disk files.

  • About dialog
    Specifies whether an About dialog box appears in the application.

  • User Logins
    Specifies whether the application prompts for user password login and maintains preference information for multiple users, such as Options dialog settings and Favorites menu contents.

  • Icon
    Specifies the graphic that appears in the main desktop ( _SCREEN) of normal applications, in the top form frame of top-level applications, and in the title bar of forms to which you have not assigned a specific icon.

If you choose OK, the builder closes, applying the property settings from all tabs.

See Also

Application Builder | Advanced tab, Application Builder | Credits tab, Application Builder | Data tab, Application Builder | Forms tab, Application Builder | General tab, Application Builder | Reports tab, Application Builder | Developing Applications with the Application Framework