Most of the Winform Painter's features are available from its menu bar. To select a menu option:

1. Move to the menu bar. Press the Home key or PF10 to position the cursor immediately before the first menu item.

   Alternatively, you can use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the menu bar.

2. Select a menu. You can navigate through the menu bar using the:
   • Tab key to cycle through the menus and, if one of the menus is open, through that menu's options. Press Tab + Shift to move in the reverse direction.
   • PF10 and PF11 keys to move backward and forward, respectively, through the menus. If the cursor is on the menu bar, it moves to the previous or next menu; if the cursor is on an open menu, it moves to the previous or next menu and opens that menu.
   • Arrow keys.

   Once the cursor is on the desired menu, press the Enter key. Most menus open into a pull-down menu from which you can select an option. (The Cases and Help menus each display a dialog box; they do not open into a menu of options.)

3. Select a menu option. Position the cursor on the desired option in the pull-down menu and press the Enter key.

   If you wish to close a menu without selecting an option, press PF3 while the cursor is positioned anywhere in the menu system. (Note that if the cursor is on the Winform Painter canvas, PF3 closes the Painter.)

• Tab key to cycle through the menus and, if one of the menus is open, through that menu's options. Press Tab + Shift to move in the reverse direction.
• PF10 and PF11 keys to move backward and forward, respectively, through the menus. If the cursor is on the menu bar, it moves to the previous or next menu; if the cursor is on an open menu, it moves to the previous or next menu and opens that menu.
• Arrow keys.

Some menu options are shown with a function key (for example, F3) to the right of the option. This indicates that the function key is a shortcut key that you can press to select the menu option; when you press the function key, the cursor can be anywhere on the Winform Painter canvas. Pressing a shortcut key is a quick alternative to navigating through the menu bar and menu options.

This is the name of the MAINTAIN file from which the Winform is displayed. The name is supplied by the developer from either the:

• New Maintain dialog box, or the
• Open Maintain dialog box.

Each Maintain procedure can display many different Winforms. All of the Winforms are stored in one file. This means that there needs to be a way to identify which Winform should be displayed, modified, or created. The name displayed here is the one supplied in the Winform Name entry field of the Winform Properties dialog box.

The Winform title is for the benefit of the application user, and is optional. The title is centered in the Winform's top border; if a Winform has no border, it does not display the title.

Maintain's Winform Painter provides a ruler both at the top and the bottom of the screen in order to help the developer line up fields more easily.

This is the area on which the developer paints the Winform.

The line below the bottom ruler is reserved for a list of common function keys. If the Painter needs to instruct the developer to do something, the list is not displayed, and a message is displayed.

F1=Help 2=AddLn 3=Exit 4=NewFld 5=Move 6=DelObj 7=Up 8=Down 9=DelLn 
12=EdtObj