Symbols displayed on an interface element when contained by a form. The attachment icons allow you to edit the attachment constraints interactively. See also interface elements, containers, and constraint resources.
The root widget of a component's single-rooted widget subtree. Components typically use a container widget as the root of the subtree; all other widgets are descendents of this widget. See also components.
Push buttons that, when you click them, display pulldown menus.
The interface elements contained or grouped by a container widget. See also interface elements and widgets.
Interface elements based on IRIS ViewKit classes. A component is a C++ gui class and can contain several other components and/or widgets. See also interface elements, widgets, and user-defined components.
Resources added to an interface element by a container that affect the element's position within the container. See also interface elements, containers, and resources.
Widgets that can group or contain other interface elements. See also interface elements and widgets.
Top-level windows within an application used for major data manipulation or viewing data outside of the main window. See also main windows.
Objects that you create, select, position, and manipulate in RapidApp. Interface elements can be either components or widgets.
The Silicon Graphics port of the industry-standard OSF/Motif interface toolkit.
The application's main controlling window used to view or manipulate data, get access to other windows within the application, and quit the application. There should be only one main primary window per application. See also co-primary windows.
The behavior of a group of toggles where only one toggle at a time can be active. When you toggle on a button in the group, any other toggle in the group that was on turns off.
Moving an interface element from one container widget to another. See also interface elements and widgets.
Attributes of interface elements that change their appearance or behavior. See also interface elements.
An invisible grid to which interface elements “snap” when you move or resize them. See also interface elements.
A type of window that typically contains a control panel or tool palette that operates directly on data in a main or co-primary window. See also co-primary windows and main windows.
This function is placed in user-defined callback functions and is used as follows:
– While running and testing an application and when a callback is encountered, this function prints a message telling you that the callback has been called.
– While debugging an application and when a callback is encountered, this function is called. This is useful when you have an undefined callback function.
Interface components that are part of the IRIS IM toolkit. See also interface elements and IRIS IM.