The Center in Form command allows you to center control instances between the top and bottom and left and right margins of your form. You can copy and paste multiple control instances after placing the first ones on your form. When you do so, you will receive a dialog box asking if you want to use what is known as a control array. In Windows 95, you must also set the MultiLine property to True or the alignment will not change regardless of the setting you apply. Note that, if you wish a multi-line text box, you must also set the scroll bars property to True to have all of the contents display if there is more text than will display in the box.
Text boxes can respond to a broad variety of events.
An example can be seen in our project where the text box with focus will have bold and blue letters. This is often a useful aid to ensure the user is placing the proper information within the proper control. We will establish the color change and bolding the text using assignment statements. This is one of the most important and most overlooked features relating to ease of form use. Ideally, the order in which you move from control to control should follow the actual way data is entered into a form.