Opening an Existing Screen

1. Load your application.
2. To open a screen:
   • either, in the header bar, click

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      and click a screen from the list
   • or in the repository, expand your application's Screens section and double-click a screen name.
3. PhixFlow opens the locked screen in the canvas.
4. To unlock the screen for editing, right-click anywhere on the screen to open the popup menu and select 

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   .
5. PhixFlow displays the toolbar for the screen indicating it is ready to edit.
6. Click 

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    to display the palette on the right and you can begin editing the screen.

Creating a New Screen

1. Click the In the header bar, click 

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   Screen menu from the top menu

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    or in the repository, expand your application's Screens section.
2. Click 

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   , PhixFlow opens the screen creation wizard.
3. Enter a Name for the screen.
4. Tick to specify if the screen should open maximised or not.
   1. These can be changed at a later time by accessing the screen's properties from the toolbar. Here are some example setups: 
      1. Popup screen for data entry: 
         
         1. tick Always on top
         2. tick Allow user to resize
         3. Set Position to Floating and if desired set the other positional settings such as the size and location of the screen. 
      2. Full-screen properties for displaying tables of data
         1. tick Open Maximised
         2. untick Always On Top
         3. if you intend to make your own navigation or screen controls, untick Show Window Button Bar.
         4. optionally, untick Allow user to resize
5. Click on the template the screen should be based on.
6. PhixFlow opens a new, unlocked, Screen with the palette opened.

Unlocking and locking a Screen for Editing

Locking a screen will makes it interactive, and therefore uneditable, while it remains locked it displays the screen content as the end user will experience it. For example clicking a button will trigger its action, and components such as a URL component will display their content.

Unlocking a screen will make it editable again and allow you to update the layout, clicking a button now will open its properties editor.

Designing or Using an Application

When you are creating and editing screens that make up an application, you are working in

PhixFlow runs applications in 

To switch modes, click the icon in the right of the header bar.

Unlocking and Locking a Screen for Editing

When you first open a screen in

Design Mode and Application Mode

When creating and editing applications we work in Design Mode. This provides you access to all the tools and options necessary to create powerful applications. To experience your application as the end user will, we switch to App Mode.

The option to toggle between modes is available in the top right corner of PhixFlow,  

An unlocked screen has all the toolbar and pop-up menu options that you need to move components and edit their properties. If you click on a component, such as a button, PhixFlow opens its properties.

Testing Screens

When you have configured part of a screen, you may want to test how it behaves for an application user. For example, you may want to click a button and run its action, or have a URL component display its content. To do this:

• either, in 

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• , in the screen toolbar, click on 

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  .

Testing Screens

• or, in the header bar on the right, click

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•  to run your application.