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User Interface Programming: Using the IDL GUIBuilder |
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The Widget Browser of the IDL GUIBuilder is a dialog window that presents the current GUI in a tree control. This presents the user with a different view into the GUI they are designing.
To start the Widget Browser, right-click on any component in an IDL GUIBuilder window, then choose Browse from the menu. This opens the Widget Browser, like the one shown in the following figure.
The Widget Browser is helpful when you want to see your widget hierarchy and when you need to operate on overlapping widgets in your interface layout, which can happen when you design an interface to show or hide widgets on specific events. For an example that uses the Widget Browser for this purpose, see Controlling Widget Display.
| Note In the Widget Browser, there is no indication of defined menus. |
You can expand the widget tree by clicking on the plus sign, or collapse it by clicking on the minus sign. When you select a widget in the hierarchy by clicking on it, the widget is selected in the IDL GUIBuilder window, and the Properties dialog updates to display the selected widget's properties.
Right-click on a component to display a context menu from which you can cut, copy, paste, or delete the widget. From the context menu, you can also open the Properties dialog and the Menu Editor, when appropriate. To delete a widget from the Widget Browser, use the context menu, or select a widget and press the Delete key.
To change a widget's Name attribute in the Widget Browser, select the widget name with two single clicks on the name. This changes the name into an editable text box in which you can enter the new name. The Name attribute must be unique to the widget hierarchy. For more information on other ways to operate on widgets, see Widget Operations.
IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)
