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- The Dialog Designer is a user-interface construction tool.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Pressing the command key allows movement, resizing, and
- editing of items, and allows movement and resizing of
- the dialog window.
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- With the command key pressed:
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- 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.
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- double-clicking an item allows editing of the item's
- attributes (item-type, text, action, etc), or deletion
- of the item.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The Dialog Designer is copyright © 1987 Coral Software Corp.