Print Objects and Properties

After specifying the view and metapage, you must describe the printable areas by placing objects such as appointments and tasks on the metapage. Several built-in objects exist for this purpose and are described in this section.

Most objects that are placed on the metapage print schedule information. If an object cannot fit all of its information into the printing area, any unprinted information can be put into an overflow buffer.
Objects can also have properties. The following built-in objects have several shared properties such as fonts and date formats. All these properties are consistent within objects, and all objects that support them use them in a similar fashion.

Object	Description
APPTS	Puts appointments into the overflow buffer.
BITMAP	Draws a bitmap.
CALENDAR	Prints a month calendar.
CARDLIST	Puts contacts into the overflow buffer.
EVENTS	Puts events into the overflow buffer.
LINE	Draws a line.
MONTH	Prints a user's appointments for a month.
OVERFLOW	Prints the contents of the overflow buffer.
RECTANGLE	Draws a shaded or unshaded rectangle.
SCHEDULE	Prints a user's appointments in a graphical frame.
TASKS	Puts tasks into the overflow buffer.
TASKLIST	Puts tasks in a form of a list into the overflow buffer.
TEXT	Prints the text.
TIMEFRAME	Prints a time frame.

A detailed description of how to specify the following properties appears later in this section.

Property	Description
DATEFMT	Specifies a format for printing dates.
DELTAYMD	Changes the default printing date for the object.
OPTIONS	Lists the object-specific options.
OVERFLOW	Specifies an overflow buffer for use by the object.
RANGE	Specifies a time range for the object.
STYLES	Lists the fonts used by the object.
TIMEFMT	Specifies a format for printing times.
VALUE	Specifies a value for a text or bitmap object.

The following table indicates which properties are available for each object. An 'R' means that the property is required for the object, an 'O' means that the property is optional, and a blank space means that the property is not valid for the object.

Object	DATEFMT	DELTAYMD	OPTIONS	OVERFLOW	RANGE	STYLE	TIMEFMT	VALUE
APPTS	O	O	R	O	O	R	O
BITMAP								R
CALENDAR		O				R
CARDLIST			O	O		R
EVENTS	O	O	O	O	O	R
LINE
MONTH		O		O	O	R	O
OVERFLOW			R	O		R
RECTANGLE			O
SCHEDULE		O	R	O	O	R	O
TASKS			R	O		R
TASKLIST			R	O		R
TEXT	O	O	O			R	O	R
TIMEFRAME			R		O	R

OBJECT {reserved},{object name},{left},{top},{right},{bottom}

{reserved}

{object name}

{left}, {right}, {top}, and {bottom}

Properties associated with the object follow the object line. Indenting the lines that specify properties makes the .PRT file more readable.