What Is Satellite Forms?
Like its distant relative Microsoft Visual Basic, Satellite Forms is many things, including these:
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A programming language
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A development environment
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A runtime engine
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An object model
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A client/server development tool
Figure 1 shows the Satellite Forms integrated development environment (IDE), known as the App Designer.
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The Satellite Forms App Designer.
Satellite Forms comes with a number of commonly used controls. These include the Text, Button, Edit, List Box, and Bitmap controls. Each of these controls can be dragged and dropped onto a form within the IDE. Events (such as a button click event) are handled by right-clicking a button on a form and selecting Control Properties. In the resulting dialog box (see Figure 2), edit the Action When Clicked result to action type Run Script.
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Adding an event handler.