Visual Attributes

Visual attributes are the font, pattern and color properties in which you set for menu and form objects.A visual attribute is another object which you can create in the Object Navigator with properties like as font, pattern and color combinations.Whenever creating visual attributes, you could use the Color Picker and Font Picker to select the font and color. When modifying a font from the Property Palette and click the Font groups itself to invoke the Font Picker.

Every interface object in a forms application has a property known as Visual Attribute Group that determines how the individual visual attribute visual attribute settings of an object are derived. A Visual Attribute Group property could be set to NULL, Default or the name of a named visual attribute object.

Partial Visual Attributes

Partial visual attributes are such like visual attributes; apart that   you want to set only the properties which you need to be inherited through the objects that use them.  This means that you can apply a visual attribute which modifies the font color without having to set the font name.