The Dialog Designer is a user-interface construction tool.

The current version is still in the prototype stage.  A real implementation
will be available in the spring of 1988.  At that point, you'll be able to
build dialog boxes, menus, and windows without writing the source code. You use
the mouse, and the source code gets written for you.

The Dialog Designer attempts to be intuitive to use.
A control panel has buttons for creating new dialog-windows,
setting the window's title, adding items, and printing
source-code for the designed dialog.

Pressing the command key allows movement, resizing, and
editing of items, and allows movement and resizing of
the dialog window.


With the command key pressed:

      clicking in a dialog-item and dragging will move the
  dialog-item.  If the click is in the lower right corner
  of the item, the item will resize rather than move.

      double-clicking an item allows editing of the item's
  attributes (item-type, text, action, etc), or deletion
  of the item.

      clicking in the window but not in an item, followed
  by dragging,  will move the entire window.  If the click
  is in the lower right corner of the window, the window
  will resize rather than move.

For dialogs with complex, interconnected actions, it is
recommended that you use Dialog Designer for creating
and positioning the items, then print the source and
edit each item's action.


The Dialog Designer is copyright © 1987 Coral Software Corp.