ScreenMan Forms

Introduction

The basic steps to prepare and present screens to the user are:

1. Design the physical layout of the screens and determine data editing rules.
   
   
2. Use the ScreenMan Form Editor to create the form.
   
   
3. Test the form.
   
   
4. Invoke the form from an application.

The ScreenMan Form Editor does the following:

• Provides sophisticated tools for creating new forms and editing existing ones.
  
  
• Facilitates the composition process from the initial design through editing and completion.
  
  
• Allows you to place blocks and fields wherever you wish on the screen, and later to select and drag them to new positions.
  
  
• Allows you to experiment with the "look" of the screen.
  
  
• Eases the process of positioning:
  • Popup pages
    
    
  • Blocks
    
    
  • Captions
    
    
  • Edit windows

REF: See also:

• "ScreenMan Form Editor" section.
  
  
• "ScreenMan APIs" section, which describes the ScreenMan APIs you can use to load a form and to use within a form.
  
  
• "ScreenMan Tutorial" (available from the VA FileMan Home Page on hardhats.org).

Reviewed/Updated: May 2026