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Other Assistant Settings

In addition to Entities, Properties, Widgets, and Windows tabs, the Assistant also provides Miscellaneous and XML tabs. The Miscellaneous tab allows you to specify application wide settings for alignment and label placement (for all widgets in all windows for all entities).

The XML tab is more advanced. It allows you to view the output of the rules system. The output, which is the resolution of rules, is represented as XML. As you become more familiar with the Direct to Java Client technology, you can read the XML to verify user interface configurations instead of restarting the application to see the actual effects of your changes.

You can also use the XML tab to save the XML to a file. You typically do this when you want to customize an application by freezingit's XML. Freezing allows you to explicitly state the result of a rule system request. The freezing technique is beyond the scope of this tutorial.