You can customize many of the VisualAge RPG GUI Designer components to suit your personal preferences. Let's customize the Project view and the Parts Palette window.
Customizing the Project View
First lets customize the Project view. Remember the Project view presents a view of the parts that make up your project. By default the Project view is a set of icons or in the form of a tree diagram.
Follow these steps:
The Project View is refreshed, and plus signs(+) are displayed next to the window parts. A plus sign in a tree view indicates there are more items, or in the case of the GUI Designer, parts in the window.
You can also change the Project view by clicking with
the right mouse button on the Project View. A pop-up menu is displayed from which you can
choose a particular view.
Customizing the Parts Palette
You can customize the Parts Palette to contain only those parts that you use most often.
Follow these steps:
The Group box part is removed from the Parts Palette, not the GUI Designer. If you closed the GUI Designer, the Parts Palette will not contain the Group box part when you restart the GUI Designer. But how do you add the Group box part back again to the Parts Palette?
As the Group box part is an IBM supplied part, you
cannot modify it, for example, change its name or icon, or delete it from the Parts
Catalog. You can perform those actions on User-Defined parts and Imported parts only.
Click on to indicate that you've done all the steps.
This completes Exercise 1. You have been introduced to
the GUI Designer and are familiar with some of its components such as the Parts Palette
and Tool bar. You also know how to customize these components.
Now you are ready to create your first window of the Customer Inquiry application.
But before you do, we recommend you do the Quiz.