Format property

The following table maps keywords for format definitions to property names in the component properties sheet.

This property is enabled only if you have the Use Free Form property set to True.

Keyword	Component Property
DEFAULTFORMAT	n/a
DECIMALPOINT	Decimal Point Position
TRUNCATEDECIMAL	Round
DATE | TIME | DATETIME	Date Format
BLOBFORMAT	Binary Data
COMMA	n/a
COMMAS	n/a
DECIMAL	n/a
FONT	Font
FORECOLOR	Foreground Color
BACKCOLOR	Background Color
MASK	Input Mask
AUTOIME	Default IME Character Set
JUSTIFY	Justification

A value of the Format property is specified like this:

DEFAULTFORMAT ( keyword1 ( parameter ) [ keyword2 ( parameter ) . . . keywordn ( parameter ) ] )

The keyword DEFAULTFORMAT is optional in a Format value for a component.