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FormCode/Gen Micronix Inc. Registration:$99
WIN_PROG NOV91 FORMS GENERATOR
Files: FORMCODE.ZIP
FormCode/Gen is a unique piece of software that allows
you to design printed forms and mailing labels in the
powerful graphical environment of Microsoft Windows
and then generates native dBASE code to print these
forms from your favorite database management system
using your data. Windows is not required for printing the
forms, only for designing them. Your forms can contain
text with a variety of fonts, fill shades and patterns,
lines, boxes, background gray-shading and fill patterns,
tables, check-boxes, and bitmap images.
FormCode/Gen combines the power of Windows'
graphical, WYSIWYG, environment for interactively
designing the forms with the powerful data management
capabilities of the dBASE systems for actually printing
them with data. FormCode/Gen has been highly
optimized for printing at high speeds - which is untypical
of most windows applications. Code generated by
FormCode/Gen can print forms with speeds close to the
theoretical printing speed of the printer!
The code generated by FormCode/Gen is native dBASE
code so there is no need for any external libraries, etc.
This also allows free distribution of the generated code.
The generated code is highly structured and is divided
into a user and a system section. The system section
contains the actual coordinates of fields, font
information, etc, and can change when modifications to
the forms are made. The user should never modify this
section of the code since the changes will be lost when
the form is modified and code is re-generated. The user
section contains the query commands such as opening
databases, setting relations and filters, initializing and
incrementing variables and record pointers, etc.
FormCode/Gen generates a template for this section of
the program. The user can modify it according to his/her
needs.