FormGroup part

An EGL FormGroup part serves two purposes:

• Defines a collection of text and print forms. (Forms that are unique to the part are defined within the part or are included by way of a Use declaration. Forms that are common to several FormGroup parts are included by way of a Use declaration.)

• Defines zero to many floating areas, as described in Form part

You do not declare a form group as if you were declaring a record or data item. Instead, your program accesses a FormGroup part (and the related forms) only if the following statements apply:

• The location of the FormGroup part is accessible to the program, as described in References to parts

• A Use declaration in the program references the FormGroup part

A program can include no more than two formGroup parts; and if two are specified, one must be a help group. A help group contains one or more help forms, which are read-only forms that give information in response to a user keystroke.

Forms are available at run time only if you generate the FormGroup. The generated output is a class for the FormGroup part and a class for each Form part.

At preparation time, each of those entities is processed into a separate run-time load module. The EGL run time handles the interaction of your generated program and the form-specific code.

Form parts cannot be generated separately.

Related concepts
Form part
References to parts

Related reference
Use declaration