Just under the toolbar on the left of the screen there are three buttons each representing a different view: Beans, Event bindings, and Signature.
Beans is the default view, and displays your Design Hierarchy and Palette.
Event bindings shows you all the currently defined Event bindings and allows to you create a new event binding, amend an event binding, or delete an event binding.
Signature allows you to modify the current method's properties.
The Windows Menu gives you access to any of your currently open windows, as well as allowing you to display the Color, Font and Image editors.
As soon as you start to build your hierarchy, a Dynamic Display will appear. This usually appears just under the top left hand corner of the Class Editor window.
The Palette
The area to the left of the screen is the Palette.
From here you may click on any of the icons (e.g. )
to add them to your hierarchy. Any third party widgets which you may add are placed at the bottom of the
Palette.
The Design Hierarchy
The area in the middle of the screen is where you
manipulate and create your hierarchy. Highlight any part of your hierarchy by either clicking
on the appropriate icon, or by holding down
the mouse button and dragging a rubber band.
You may copy/cut/paste/clear any parts of the tree that
you wish.
By highlighting an icon (picture) (the icon attains a blue background) you may adjust/view its properties by
clicking on the Property Sheet button .
If you are currently highlighting a container, you may also
display the Layout Editor
.
The toolbar button
, allows you to create event bindings.
Dividing the Design Hierarchy from the Class Structure View is a splitter bar. By clicking on this and dragging it left or right you can resize your work areas.
The two buttons on the far right-hand side of the toolbar allow you to view either just the Design Hierarchy, or both your Design Hierarchy and Class Structure View.
The Class Structure View
The area to the right of the Class Editor window is the Class Structure View, this is where all your defined methods are listed. By clicking on a method you can bring up its hierarchy, change its return type, parameters, or name.
By using the Class and Method menus you can add/modify/delete methods or change the properties of the Class.