Delphi's desktop main form introduction

There are two ways to start desktop:

(1) Booting from windows

From the Windows operating system interface, click menu item in turn "Start L program L Borland DelPhi6 I Database Desk." Top ", you can start desktop.

(2) starting from Delphi

You can also start Desktop by clicking Tools I Database Desktop from the Delphi main menu.

2. Main form composition

The desktop form consists of 5 parts, the title bar, the main menu, the toolbar, the form workspace, and the status bar.

(1) Main Menu

The main menu consists of 5 menus, file files, edit edits, tool tools, form windows, and help assistance. Among them, the Files menu file item has 7 submenus, which are used for setting up, opening, saving, closing and setting working directory of the datasheet file. The function of each submenu item is as follows:

~new, create a new datasheet, SQL file, QBE Query.

~open opens the datasheet, SQL file, QBE Query.

~close closes files and data tables.

~save save files and data tables.

~save as save files and data tables.

~working directory to set up working directory.

· Private directory to set up a privacy directory.

(2) Toolbar

Consists of open table, open query, and open SQL 3 quick buttons, which are used to open the datasheet, open the query file, and open the SQL file. The number of quick buttons in the toolbar will be with the open file (datasheet file, SQL file, QBE

Query file) to change or decrease.

(3) Form

Forms are used to create, display, and edit data tables for editing and executing SQL files.