Saving and Exiting Your Work

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It is a good idea to save your work from time to time. This way, if the machine you are working on is no longer available, you can pick up later on from your last save point.


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Saving the Winform

How to:

Move the cursor to the menu bar by pressing the Home key or PF10. Press the Enter key so you can see the pull-down menu. Select either Save or Save As from the menu by moving the cursor to the appropriate item and pressing the Enter key. If you select Save, your keyboard will lock while the file is being saved. When it is unlocked, you can continue painting the screen if you want. There is also a shortcut key (PF22) for the Save option. This means that pressing PF22 saves your application. If you select Save As, the Save As dialog box is displayed.

The Enter new filename entry field will be filled in with the current Maintain procedure name but you can change it to any name you want. When you have filled in the name, press the Enter key and the file will be saved.



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Procedure: How to Exit the Winform Painter

There are two ways you can exit from the Winform Painter:

  1. Press the Home key or PF10 to move the cursor to the menu bar, press the Enter key to see the pull-down menu, and then move the cursor to the Exit item.
  2. Pressing PF3 exits you from whatever you are doing. This means that if a dialog box or a pull-down menu is being displayed, the dialog box disappears. If, on the other hand, you are not in the middle of doing something, pressing PF3 exits you from the Painter. If you have made any changes since the last time you saved the file, the Painter asks if you wish to do so before closing it. Move the cursor to the appropriate button and press the Enter key.


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