Category: UX/UI Objects

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Designing Menus

✓   From the Database tab, open an existing menu by double clicking on the menu name or From the main menu (File -> New, or the “New” icon in the menu toolbar), create a new menu object or Open a form/display with an associated menu. ✓    Add a menu item. Click on the menu…
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Importing Forms into Displays

✓   When painting a diplay , you can import another form into the current view. To do this, select the form you want to import, right-click.A node will appear, select the import option.

Designing Form Fields

Note: when painting displays you must add one or more forms to the display first before adding fields.  Forms are the only object that can be directly added to a display. ✓   From the toolbox tab, select the type of object that you wish to add to the current form: ✓   Using the mouse, draw the outline…
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Opening Existing Objects

Opening Objects through the Database Tab Page. ✓   In Zim IDE, the Database Tab Page can be accessed by clicking the Database Tab at the bottom-left of the screen or the Database Tab Page Icon on the View Menu bar. ✓   The Database Tab Page will become visible on the left side of the Zim IDE…
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Designing Tool Strips

Main Characteristics of Tool Strips A tool strip can have the following items: ✓  From the toolbox tab, add a toolstrip object to the existing form

Conventions

A number of conventions are used throughout this guide to indicate how to enter commands. These include: Key Combinations When you are to press two keys at the same time, they are written as Key1+Key2. This means that you should hold Key1 down and then press Key2. Command Syntax When the general syntax of a…
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