Form Editor - Palette

The Form Editor Palette is where you can find controls and layouts for designing forms.

To add a control or layout item to the form it is necessary to select it on the palette and drag to the desired place. Insertion place will be marked with a bold blue line.

To add a Form Editor Palette object to a form, drag the object from the palette to the desired location on the form.

While you drag objects from the palette to the form, a preview appears as a blue outline on the destination.

After you add an object to the form, you can change it using the Property Inspector.

Once a form is created it has its own Form control in the hierarchy. It is a base for adding all other layouts and controls into it.

Database controls have a small database sign on their icons.

Such control is always bound to the dataset and represents a field of a table or entire table, depending on its type.

• ComboBox - Field - selection control for a field.
• SpinBox - Field - control to input an integer value to a field.
• CheckBox - Field - controls represents a boolean field.
• LineEdit - Field - single-line text input for a field.
• TextEdit - Field - multi-line text input for a field.
• Image - Field - control for dislpaying an image stored in the database or loaded by URL.
• TableView - control to show data from a database table in the grid.
• Sub Form - control to show a form inside of another form.

Layout objects are used to contain and organize other objects within a form to apply consistency.

• BoxLayout - layout lines up controls horizontally or vertically.
• FormLayout - layout manages forms of input controls and their associated labels.
• TabWidget - provides a stack of tabbed controls.
• Expander - provides blank space in a layout, can expand horizontally or vertically.

Widgets is a group of controls not bound to the datasource and they don't directly assign (or show) their values to the table fields.

• Button – control provides a command button.
• ToolButton – control provides a quick-access button to commands or options, usually used inside a toolbar.
• ComboBox – selection control.
• SpinBox – control to input an integer value.
• CheckBox – control provides a checkbox with a text label.
• RadioButton – control provides a radio button with a text label.
• Label – control provides a text display.
• HyperLink – control provides a hyperlink which either opens a default browser window with the specified URL or executes a custom script.
• LineEdit – single-line text input.
• TextEdit – multi-line text input.
• ListView – shows a list of items.
• Image – control provides an image display.
• Line – control to show a vertical or horizontal line.