Users Guide
Working with Windows

Table of Contents

About windows

Designing windows

Building windows

Types of windows

Main windows

Pop-up windows

Child windows

Response windows

MDI frames

About the Window painter

Building a new window

Creating a new window

Defining the window's properties

Adding controls

Adding nonvisual objects

Saving the window

Viewing your work

Previewing a window

Printing a window's definition

Writing scripts in windows

About events for windows and controls

About functions for windows and controls

About properties of windows and controls

Declaring instance variables

Examples of statements

Running a window

Using inheritance to build a window

Building two windows with similar definitions

Advantages of using inheritance

Instance variables in descendants

Control names in descendants