¶ The Interface
¶ Main application menu
The main application menu is displayed at the top part of the window. It allows the user to do any of these following actions:
- Work with files
- Handle the clipboard
- Display panels
- Access designer dependant tools
- Help
¶ Toolbar
The toolbar can be found under the main application menu. The buttons in the toolbar can be used to do operations such as:
- Working with files
- Handling clipboard operations
- Displaying panels
- Adjusting the position and the size of selected controls
- Managing the form pages
- Communicating with the Forms server
¶ Designer workspace
The designer workspace is placed in the middle of the main application window. The designer workspace consists of the following:
- Form editor found in the middle of the workspace
- Project panel found in the left top corner
- Xml Schema panel found in the left bottom corner
- Toolbox panel found in the right top corner
- Properties panel found in the right bottom corner
¶ Status bar
The application Status bar is divided into six sections. It displays relevant information retrieved from the active editor. The information displayed differs depending on the type of the editor used.
When a form template is open in the form designer editor and a control in a form is selected, the Status bar displays the following information:
- The currently selected form server URL configured in Options.
- Current version of the form template.
- Size of the displayed page of the active form editor.
- The currently displayed page and the total number of pages of the active form.
- The position of the focused control in the active form editor in pixels.
- Size of the focused control in pixels.