Main Characteristics of the Field View The Field View is automatically enabled objects which can contain custom fields are opened or added: Entity Sets; Relationships; Documents. The Field View can be made visible or invisible through the View menu item in the Main Menu.
Main Characteristics of the Graphical Objects Tab Page The Graphical Object Tab Page shows the hierarchy of the objects currently open in the GUI Designer. In the Tree View, primary user interface objects, such as forms, displays and menus, appear as top nodes. Forms are the only children of displays All other objects
Main Characteristics of the Attributes Tab Page The Attributes Tab Page lists all the different attributes for the currently selected field(s) in the GUI Designer. The values of all available attributes can from within this tab page.
Main Characteristics of the Tool Box Tab Page The Tool Box Tab Page contains a selection of available GUI objects that can be added to the current form.
Main Characteristics of the Database Tab Page The Database Tab Page displays all databases currently connected to the current session of Zim IDE. Each connected database is represented as an expandable node containing all possible database object categories. Each object category is also represented as an expandable node containing all objects of that category…
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The Organization of Zim IDE Zim IDE consists of eight separate visual components distributed within five different panels. Some panels are occupied by two different visual components, of which only one is displayed individually when selected by the designer. The visual components of Zim IDE and their respective display panels are introduced below: Component Display Area Menu…
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Main Characteristics of the Document Editor The Document Editor is where documents such as Zim programs, database parameters and configuration files are viewed and edited. It occupies the same area as the GUI Designer it offers syntax highlighting customized for the Zim programming language. Documents can be opened and edited directly from the Database Tab Page: Click on the Documents node…
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Main Characteristics of the Menu Tool Bar The Toolbar contains shortcuts to menu items that are frequently used. There are icons for the following menu items: The Menu Tool bar is divided into the following menu areas: The Main Menu File Contains file operations: New, Open, Save, Save As and Close. Edit Contains edit operations: Cut, Copy, Paste. View Enable or Disable the Field…
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