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Forms are windows, whether they're simple dialog boxes or full windows with menus.
You choose various controls text boxes, list boxes, radio buttons, etc. Objects such as controls, windows, and labels have properties like color, text, and border style, which are set in the properties window. If you keep the properties window open while you work it changes, listing only those properties which apply to the currently highlighted object. For instance, changing the mouse pointer from an arrow to an I beam as it passes over a text box is as easy as opening a drop-down list of pointer types in the properties window for the text box. Many object properties can also be altered at runtime by code.