6 GUI Builder

6.1 How to Get Started

6.1.1 Interfacebuilder Menu

This command creates a new fragmentgroup that are setup to contain window definitions. The ORIGIN of the fragmentgroup are the 'guienvall' fragmentgroup, which includes all of GUIenv (Lidskjalv), the Mjølner BETA user interface framework. The fragmentgroup has a 'GUIenvLib: attributes' fragment, which therefore can contain specializations of the window pattern from Lidskjalv. Furthermore a BODY fragmentgroup is automatically created. This fragmentgroup will contain the private attributes of the window definitions.

A file dialog prompts for a filename which will be the name of the new fragment group.

Assuming the name 'foo' is used, the BODY group will have the name 'foobody'.

This command does almost the same as the 'New Window Library' command. The created fragmentgroup will have a 'windowLib: attributes' fragment, which can contain canvas specialisations of the window pattern from Lidskjalv.

Selecting "edit" will open a graphical editor on the window pattern that are currently selected in the structure-editor. The whole pattern definition must be selected. It is not sufficient to just select the name.

A specialization of window or canvas is generated in the currently selected lib fragment, dependent of the name of the fragment. If the current fragment is a GUIenvLib fragment, a window will be generated. If it is a windowLib fragment, a canvas will be generated. The following dialog are popped up:

In the 'name' field the name of the new window (or canvas) should be typed in. The name is expected to be a proper BETA identifier, since this is the name the pattern will given in the source code.

A graphical editor is opened on the newly created object.