Dialog editor controls

Dialog editor controls

The dialog editor consists of two areas:

· Configuration area which consists of a set of standard windows controls used to create, change, delete, load and save configurations of the QSO edit dialog

· Editing area - it is a special type of control designed to manipulate contents of the dialog – show, hide and replace them

Configuration area

When you first start 59+ Log there is only one edit dialog configuration available – the default configuration. You can derive new configuration from the default one, save it and then create other configuration based on (derived from) existing ones.

To create new configuration, follow these steps:

1. Press the “Add” button - “Add new configurations” dialog will appear.

2. Type a name of the new configuration in the “Configuration” edit box

3. Select existing configuration in “Copy settings from” combo box. By doing that you will derive a new dialog configuration. There will always be “Default” configuration to derive from in the combo box. As you create configurations new items will be added.

4. Press OK

After you have finished creating new dialog there will be at least two configurations available in the combo box.

As you switch between configurations using “Configuration” combo box the contents of the editing area will change.

The following are the controls that make the configuration area of the dialog editor:

· Configuration combo box - use it to switch between saved configurations.

· Add button - adds new configuration

· Remove button - removes configuration

· Rename button - rename currently selected configuration

· Set active - makes currently selected configuration active. That means it will be shown when you first open QSO Edit dialog.

· Hide item - this button works together with the editing area. By pressing the button you will hide currently selected control in the editing area.

· Show item - shows you “Select item” dialog.

· OK, Cancel, Apply buttons

Editing area

The editor area together with the configuration area allows you to manipulate controls of the QSO Edit dialog. Use the mouse to select a control in the editing area. Replace, hide or show controls using configuration area’s buttons or the popup menu.

To bring the popup menu click on a control in the editing area and right click with the mouse. The popup menu will allow you to hide the selected control and place it into the list of hidden controls. They can be made visible using “Show” button on the configuration area.

To open the dialog editor

· Press Alt+E anytime when QSO edit dialog is active

· Right click on the QSO edit dialog header and select “Launch editor” menu item from the popup menu

See Also: QSO Edit dialog, Run-time dialog resource editor (RTD) source code