Saving Your Work and Exiting

It is a good idea to save your work from time to time. This way, if a system problem interrupts your Painter session or you accidentally delete some work, you can restart your Painter session from the point of your last save.

Saving the Procedure

Try it now: Move the cursor to the File pull-down menu by pressing the Home key or PF10. Select either Save or Save As from the menu by moving the cursor to the appropriate item and pressing the Enter key.

To save your Maintain procedure and WINFORMS files under their current name (CARSPECS), move the cursor to Save and press Enter or alternatively, press PF22 (the Save shortcut key). The keyboard locks while the file is being saved. When it unlocks, you can continue painting the screen if you wish.
To save your Maintain procedure and WINFORMS files under a different name, select Save As. When the Save As dialog box opens, the Filename field displays the current Maintain procedure name. After you type the new name, press the Enter key to save the file.

Exiting the Winform Painter

There are two ways to exit from the Winform Painter: select Exit from the File Menu or press PF3.

Pressing PF3 exits whatever you are doing. For example, if a dialog box or a pull-down menu is open, the dialog box or menu disappears.

If you are not selecting from a dialog box or menu, pressing PF3 exits the Painter.

If you made any changes since the last time you saved the file, you are asked if you want to save the changes. Move the cursor to the appropriate button and press the Enter key.

Try it now: If you wish to continue the tutorial at this point, begin Step 2 in the next section. If you wish to exit now, press PF3. You can continue later where you left off as explained when you begin Step 2: Adding Fields.