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. |
| STYLE | 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. A check mark means that the property is required for the object, a bullet 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 | · | · | Ö | · | · | Ö | · | |
| BITMAP | Ö | |||||||
| CALENDAR | · | Ö | ||||||
| CARDLIST | · | · | Ö | |||||
| EVENTS | · | · | · | · | · | Ö | ||
| LINE | ||||||||
| MONTH | · | · | · | Ö | · | |||
| OVERFLOW | Ö | · | Ö | |||||
| RECTANGLE | · | |||||||
| SCHEDULE | · | Ö | · | · | Ö | · | ||
| TASKS | Ö | · | Ö | |||||
| TASKLIST | Ö | · | Ö | |||||
| TEXT | · | · | · | Ö | · | Ö | ||
| TIMEFRAME | Ö | · | Ö |
An object is defined in a print view by the following line:
OBJECT {reserved},{object name},{left},{top},{right},{bottom}
where
Properties associated with the object follow the object line. Indenting the lines that specify properties makes the .PRT file more readable.