How to add a textbox control to a form

When you add fields from a table to a form it turns them all into textbox controls by default. Of course this is the control that is used the most in many data-entry solutions. In the walkthrough Create a data-entry form (field style) we added some fields from a tabel to a form and just as we would expect they are added as databound controls to the form.

So you've seen how to add fields to a form when creating it. What if you decide to add an extra field to your database and want to add it to the rest of the fields which are already on your form? Take these steps:

Click on the textbox icon on the toolbar
Select a field from the data provider dialog
Press the Ok button

In VFP we can add a textbox and bind it to a variable. In Servoy this is also the case. In Servoy you can define a variable as a form variable (we would call this a form property) or as a global variable. To add a form variable and bind a textbox to it do the following: