Chapter 24 UI Assistant Parts Toolbar

The Parts page gives you quick and easy access to all of the parts found on the Composition Editor’s palette. As a result, you may hide the palette in order to conserve screen real estate. As all of the common visual parts are directly accessible from this page, you may find this page to be a more convenient mechanism for choosing part types (e.g., you don’t need to switch between categories to access labels, buttons and lists).

The ability to automatically invoke sticky mode via Alt-clicking on any of the buttons means that you can avoid frequent trips to the Sticky checkbox. If the Auto Sticky property is set (via the Setup Page), then all part adding functions will use sticky mode.

In addition to the most common visual parts that are directly accessible from this page, quite a few others are available by resizing the UI Assistant window (in floating mode only).

Selection Tool

Selection Tool. Use this button to set the Composition Editor back to selection mode. This will turn off sticky mode if it is on.

Add Part

Add a part to the Composition Editor. This command opens the standard Add Part dialog.

Right-click for a list of available parts. The list of parts is dynamically determined based on the categories currently available to the Composition Editor.

Widget Buttons

Most of the commonly used widgets appear on this page. Resize the window to see more buttons.

Alt-click to automatically invoke sticky mode.

Right-click to see a list of subclasses of the selected class (if any).

Button

Toggle

Radio Button Set

Text

Formatted Text

Multi-line Text

Label

List

Multiple Select List

Drop-down List

Combo Box

Spin Button

Icon Area

Icon List

Flowed Icon List

Icon Tree

Table List

Table Tree

Table Column

Shell

Form

Group Box

Scrolling Window

Portable OS/2-style Notebook

Portable Windows-style Notebook

Notebook Page

Parts ComboBoxes

The combobox on the right is a list of all of the parts categories in use by the Composition Editor. The default category is “** All **”. The combobox on the right is used to select a part from the selected category. The button on the right loads the cursor with an instance of the selected part. Alt-clicking the button automatically invokes sticky mode.

Right-click on the right-hand combobox for a list of available parts in the selected category.