Structure Editor : User Interface

Below is a typical screen shot of the Structure Editor User Interface. Note: The style of the user-interface can be modified to suit user taste and for consistency with the installed platform :-

The main Structure Editor window is composed of :-

• a standard menu bar,
• a graphical toolbar, and
• a tabbed editing area

The tabbed area has one tab for each structure currently being edited, plus additional tabs for any associated header or trailer texts. Each editing area is then sub-divided into a number of areas which are described here.

The user-interface is designed to allow most operations to be performed in a variety of ways. Operations can be performed by use of the :-

• main menu
• toolbar buttons
• pop-up menus
• keyboard shortcuts
• hot-spots
• "bars"

The editing operations that you can perform via the Structure Editor user interface are described here. Below is a summary of the different user interface facilities provided for each operation :-

 

					Right-Click
		File Menu	Toolbar	Keyboard	Structure	List	Tab	Hotspot	Bars
File Control	Open/Save/Close/Help	x	x	x
	Open Recent Files	x
	Print Structure	x	x	x	x
	Print Set	x
	Generate HTML	x	x	x	x
	Generate Code	x
	Compile generated code	x
	Structure Properties	x
Editing	Cut/Copy/Paste/Del/Undo	x		x	x
	Search	x		x	x
	Add/rename/remove Structure						x
	Add operation/condition
	Add op/cond reference			x					x
	Delete operation/condition					x
	Delete op/cond reference			x		x
	Add/Insert box							x
	Change box type							x
	Change backtracking							x
	Rename box			x
	External editor					x	x
Display	Zoom		x		x
	Fold / Unfold	x			x			x
	View/Edit Header & Trailer		x
	Hide Operation Boxes		x
	Display quit lines		x
	Display bars		x
	Display page-layout		x
	Display op/cond references								x
Printing	Add/Remove page break			x	x
	Automatic page breaks	x
	Wall-paper pages		x
	Page zoom		x