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Tutorial training – Revision B – Sep/10/2000
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6. Creating New Screens
Before creating any screens, you should think about the structure of the application screens. It is
possible to open more than one screen at the same time in applications for Win9x/NT/2000, but in
the Windows CE version you can create a default screen with a header and footer (template) and
insert objects in this window, saving it under different names to make the different screens.
Usually, there are three basic areas on a screen (or types of screens):
Header: Objects on the top of the screen that provide standard information (date, time, etc).
Footer: Objects at the bottom of the screen, often an alarm object showing the last alarm.
Regular: This is the space between the header and the footer. It can show information about the
process, an alarm screen, trend, etc. …
The advantages to using this structure to develop our screens in our applications are that it:
• Ties screens together according to their utility in the application.
• Allows you to configure the links and dynamics that are common for all screens just once.
• Gives the application a default format.
• Allows you to build modular screens that can be used in other projects.
With this recommended structure, we can begin to create screens for the application.
Creating a Standard Screen
The standard screen is going to be used as a template for all of the other screens. The rest of the
screens will be created using this screen and saving it with other name. This way we always will
have the same screen attributes and basic objects across all of the screens.
Select the Workspace window Graphics tab, right-click the Screens folder, and select Insert (or
select Insert | Screen).
In the Screen Attributes window, you must configure the general information about the screen.
The first screen we are going to create is the standard screen.
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