WIL Dialog Editor - View

 

Edit Bar

Check to make the Edit toolbar visible and uncheck to remove the Edit toolbar from the screen.

Status Bar

Check to make the Status bar visible and uncheck to remove the status bar from the bottom of Dialog Editor’s main window.

Control Bar

Check to make the Control Palette toolbar visible and uncheck to remove the Control Palette toolbar from the screen.

Align Bar

Check to make the Control Align toolbar visible and uncheck to remove the Control Align toolbar from the screen.

 


 

Grid

Check to show the positioning grid in your dialog’s background. This does not affect the appearance of your dialog when you use your template in a script. The grid is provided to assist you with control placement. When the menu item is unchecked, Dialog Editor displays a background bitmap, a selected background color, or the system default background color. The background displayed when this menu item is unchecked is determined according to following rules:

  • A bitmap is displayed, if the Bitmap menu item is checked.

  • If you have selected a background color and the Bitmap item is not checked the selected background color is displayed.

  • The system default dialog background color is displayed, if you have not selected a background color and the Bitmap menu item is not checked.

Note: the Bitmap item cannot be checked until you have selected a bitmap for your dialog template.

Bitmap

This menu item allows you to display or hide the dialogs bitmap background.

 


 

Attributes

This menu item launches the Attributes property dialog. Selecting the dialog or one of its controls enables this menu item. The Attributes property dialog allows you to set the values that define your dialog and the controls it contains. The information you entered in this dialog becomes the comma-delimited list of values for each control variable and other template variables that define your dialog. You will see from two to four tabs when you launch this dialog. The tabs you see depend on the attributes of the visual object that is selected when the Attributes Dialog is launched. The contents of each tab of the Attributes Dialog also vary depending on the attributes of the selected object.

See: Dialog Attributes for complete tab description.


 

Show Script/Show Dialog

This menu item toggles between the script view mode and the editor mod of Dialog Editor. The menu item’s text is Show Script when the editor is displaying your dialog and Show Dialog when editor is showing the script. Note: you cannot change the script directly while in show script mode; all changes must be made from edit mode.

 


 

Menu Editor...

This menu item starts the Menu Editor dialog.  The Menu Editor dialog allows you to add a menu bar and menu items to your dialog template.

See: Menu Editor for explanation of the meaning and operation of each control in the Menu Editor dialog.

 

 

Getting Started

Using the Dialog Editor

WIL Dialog - Menu Editor

WIL Dialog - Dialog Attributes

FILE

EDIT

VIEW

INSERT

ALIGN

TEST

HELP