Tivoli Service Desk 6.0 Interface Designer's Guide
Table of Contents
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Preface
Description
Who Should Read this Book
What This Book Contains
Other books in This Library
Typeface Conventions
Special Elements
Product Name Acronyms
Platform-specific Information
Contacting Customer Support
Chapter 1: Introduction
What is the Interface Designer?
Terminology conventions
Forms
Introduction
Description of forms
Process used to build forms
Resource Files
Overview
Opening a new resource file
Opening an existing resource file
Starting and Quitting
Starting the Interface Designer
Quitting the Interface Designer
OK and Apply
Overview
When should Apply be used?
Setting Preferences
Introduction
Setting general preferences
Setting colors preferences
Saving preference selections
Chapter 2: Designing Forms
Introduction
Overview
Working with Forms
Creating a new form
Opening an existing form
Closing a form
Deleting a form
Testing a form
Form Properties
Base properties
Help properties
Form properties
Tab order properties
Setting form properties
Chapter 3: Designing Controls
Introduction
Overview
Overview to Control Properties
Overview
Common Control Properties
Base tab properties
Help tab properties
Specific Control Properties
Overview
Button properties
Check box properties
Clock properties
Combo box properties
Text box properties
Group box properties
Hypertext properties
Image properties
List box properties
Multi-line edit box properties
Button Properties
Slider properties
Sub form properties
Table properties
Text box properties
Setting control properties
Working with Controls
Adding controls
Setting attachments
Moving controls
Copying controls
Resizing controls
Resizing controls to the active control
Aligning controls to the active control
Finding missing or obscured controls
Bringing a control to the front
Sending a control back
Deleting controls
Chapter 4: Designing Notebooks
Introduction
Overview
Adding a notebook
Notebook Properties
Overview
Using Notebook Properties
Setting notebook properties
Creating Notebook Tabs
Adding tabs to a notebook
Working with Notebook Tabs
Rearranging notebook tabs
Editing notebook tabs
Removing notebook tabs
Deleting notebooks
Chapter 5: Building Additional Features
Introduction
Overview
Pattern Components
What are patterns?
Pattern types
Entry and display masks
Character flags
Valid characters
Formatting Text Boxes with Patterns
Creating patterns
Applying patterns to text boxes
Disassociating patterns from text boxes
Creating Menus
Introduction
Creating window menus
Adding submenus
Testing menus
Deleting menus
Creating and Working with Toolbars
Introduction
Creating Toolbars
Creating separators between buttons
Creating Hypertext Controls
Introduction
Types of hypertext buttons
Creating hypertext buttons
Creating Online Help
Introduction
Adding online help
Chapter 6: Using Forms in Developer's Toolkit Programs
Introduction
Overview
Resource file location
Form Types
Introduction
Modal forms
Modeless forms
Parsing Forms
Introduction
Common parsing errors
Chapter 7: Geometry Management
Introduction
Overview
How attachments work
Fixed attachments
Percentage attachments
Offsets
Dialog Coordinates
Overview
Choosing fonts
Examples
Introduction
Fixed attachment example
Percentage attachment example
Two percentage-attached controls
Offsets example
Percentage attachments with offsets
Fixed and percentage attachments with offsets
Tivoli Service Desk 6.0 Developer's Toolkit Interface Designer Guide
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