The EllipseShape class represents an ellipse that you can place on the shape layer of a form or composite field. Fields on the shape layer are displayed behind any fields on the field layer.

Usually, an EllipseShape object is not associated with a variable. However, to change one or more of its attributes at runtime (using the field function), you can assign a variable to an EllipseShape. The data in the variable itself has no meaning.