This page is for application designers who want to design re-usable components and add them to palettes.
Overview
The easiest way to design a screen for an application is to:
- create a screen; see Screen
- drag in pre-designed components from the palette. For information about the palettes that can be installed with PhixFlow, see pages in the Using Palettes and Themes topic.
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Overview
You can add your own components to the palettes provided by Phixflow. Alternatively, you can keep your custom components on your own palettes; see Changing or Creating a Palette.
If you have a specific component that you want to reuse on multiple screens
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- Convert it to a template
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- component,
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- described below.
- Add it to a new or existing palette.
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For Components and Templates the repository does not have a context menu option to add a new one.
Making a Template
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Making a Template
- On a screen canvas, add components from a palette and change their properties to create the layout and design you want.
- Set all the style options you require
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- . We recommend that you use shared styles when designing a layout that you want to add to a palette.
- Right-click the outermost component for the layout and select
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- From the
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- popup menu, select Copy as a Template.
- PhixFlow opens a new property
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- pane. This is a copy of the original component, with the Advanced → Template property ticked. It is saved in the Template section of the repository.
- Edit the name to reflect that this component is now a template.
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Adding a Template Component to a Palette
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- In the repository
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Reusing Components in Screens
To use a template, simply drag it into the screen:
- either from the repository Template
- or from the palette.
When you drag in the template, PhixFlow prompts you to add a name. PhixFlow saves the copy in your application as a component on the screen, using the new name. This means that changing a template
- does not change the components that have already been copied from it.
- new copies will have the change.
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When you set up a template, you might want the option of changing the appearance of components that have been copied from a template. To do this, set up a shared style.
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Managing Templates
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- , find a palette and open its properties.
- Drag the palette properties tab into the workspace.
PhixFlow creates a second panel so that the palette properties are displayed next to the repository. - Expand the repository → Templates section.
- Drag template components into:
- Either the palette properties → Components section
- Or the palette properties → Palette Groups → open group properties → Components section.
The template now appears in the palette as a reusable component that you can drag onto the screen canvas.
Managing Palettes and Template Components
To successfully move a palette to a different PhixFlow instance, you must include
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all its templates and styles in the export. Consider adding your
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styles, templates and associated palette to a package, to ensure they are all included
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; see Package for how to add items to a package.
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To export your application, click the Administration menu →
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and Import Configuration.