Tab Dialog Editor

The Tab Dialog Editor is the tool you use to create custom tab dialog boxes. These tab dialog boxes may be attached to menus inside your DesignGuide to simplify the design process.

Dialog Controls

Tab Dialogs can be created, deleted and renamed using the Dialog Controls.

Creating Tab Dialogs

By simply clicking on the Create Dialog button, a default Tab Dialog will appear. You can change the name by highlighting the default name and entering the name that you want. After creating multiple Tab Dialogs you can browse through them using the pull-down menu.

Note
The name that you give each Tab Dialog is what will appear inside the Menu Editor when you assign tab dialogs to menu items.

Deleting Tab Dialogs

Tab Dialogs are deleted by selecting the desired dialog name using the pull-down menu, then clicking Delete Dialog .

Current Dialog Layout

Tab Dialogs are organized into small hierarchal tree list structures. There are only two levels to the structure:

Tab Names. Appear on the top level.
Button Names. Appear on the second level.

Reordering Tabs and Buttons

To change the order of the tabs or buttons:

Choose the tab or button you want to move.
Click on the up or down arrow depending on the direction you want to move the tab or button.

Continue arranging the tabs and buttons until you reach the desired order.

Note
If selections have already been added to the information list, rearranging the tabs and buttons will not affect these selections. The combinations will change as you change the order of tabs and buttons.

Dialog Item Controls

Adding, deleting, and renaming dialog items are done in this box.

Adding and Deleting Dialog Items

To add a dialog item:

Choose the tree level in the Current Dialog Layout corresponding to the item you want to add. The Add action button should change to either Add Tab Group or Add Button Item .
Click on the Add action button. A default item will appear in the Current Dialog Layout.

To delete a dialog item:

Choose the tree level in the Current Dialog Layout corresponding to the item you want to delete. The Delete action button should change to either Delete Tab Group or Delete Button Item .
Click the Delete action button. The item will be deleted from the Current Dialog Layout.
Caution Deleting a tab will also delete all the buttons associated with it.

Dialog Item Names

As you select dialog items from the Current Dialog Layout window, their names will appear in the text box. By putting the cursor in the text box and typing the desired name, a dialog item's name may be changed. Button names are what will appear when choosing combinations.

Dialog Selection Item Controls

Selections must be added to the Information List before they can be made into a working tab dialog.

Adding and Removing Selections

To add selections:

Click the Add Selection button until the desired amount of selections have been added. All added selections will initially default to button1 for all tabs.

To delete selections:

Highlight the selection in the Information List that you want to delete.
Click Remove Selection .

Information List

The Information List displays all the added selections and combinations for the current tab dialog. The numbers correspond to the buttons and tabs that need to be chosen to activate the object. For example, if you have 1,3,2 on one of the selections, it refers to the first button on the first tab, the third button on the second tab, and the second button on the fourth tab. After this combination, each selection shows the resultant action.

Tab Selections

The logic for each selection is made in the Tab Selections pull-down menus.

Adding and Changing Logic

To add or change logic:

Choose the selection from the Information List that you want to change. Notice that, once selected, all pull-down menus will conform to the highlighted selection.
Using the pull-down menus change the selection logic to fit your DesignGuide.
The Tab Selections pull-down menus are arranged according to your tabs and buttons. Pull-down menu number 1 corresponds to the first tab, pull-down menu number 2 corresponds to the second tab, etc. Likewise the first item on each pull-down menu refers to the first button of each corresponding tab, etc.

Dialog Function Controls

Each selection needs an Action, Object Group, and an Object.

Actions and Object

Actions and Objects help define what the Tab Dialog will do. Each selection, therefore, needs both an action and an object in order for it to do anything.
To change the action or object for a selection:

Choose a selection from the Information List.
Select the desired action from the Action pull-down menu.
Select the correct group from the Object Group pull-down menu.
Select the desired object from the Object pull-down menu.
Notice that the selection will change on the Information list as you make changes from the pull-down menus.