Recommendations for Forms Modeling

A few good practices generally give the best results when modeling large and complex forms.

  • During the early stages of form modeling, work with the labels, but don’t resize panes or controls (excepting tabbed panes). Accept the default sizes until they are positioned correctly relative to each other.

    Better advice is to leave the panes to size themselves automatically. Only set an explicit size if there is a compelling reason to do so.

  • Assign meaningful pane, control, parameter, action, and rule names before creating bindings and other scripts.