- Click
to create a new screen.Insert excerpt _app_menu_bar _app_menu_bar - In the pop-up menu, select the location for the menu bar.
- Select a blank menu or a template.
Menu's are set to Open on Startup automatically. - PhixFlow prompts you to enter the name and description for the menu bar.
- Specify the the dimensions of the menu bar in percentages or pixcels. For example:
vertical dimensions:
width: 100%
height: 50px
horizontal dimensions
width: 200px
height: 100%
- Click Confirm.
- PhixFlow opens a new screen canvas on the left and the palette on the right.
By default your application menu will appear on all your application screens. For this reason the application menu is it's own screen, rather than an area that belongs to a a child of another screen.
??How do you tell PhixFlow which screens to add it to??
Select a Blank or template menu
PhixFlow adds the menu and shows the layers panel.
Create a menu option to add a screen
Click into a menu to edit it.
PhixFlow opens the screen's list on the right.
To add a top-level option to open a screen, drag the screen onto the menu.
Under-the-hood: Phixflow creates and actionflow.Adding Menu Options
For a top-level menu option that will open a screen,
- Open the repository to show the list of screens.
- Drag a screen-name from the repository onto the menu bar.
- PhixFlow prompts you to add the Display Name text you want to appear in the menu. By default, the text is the screen's name.
- PhixFlow adds the menu option and automatically creates the actionflow.
When a user clicks the option, the screen opens automatically.
Can you change the text for the menu option
What about second-level optionsUse the Menu properties to configure more complex menus, for example, nested menus or options that run an actionflow.
Important: A menu is not an area on a screen. Under-the-hood, it is another screen
Benefits:
Restrictions