DM Glossary
A B C D E F
G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W
X Y Z
C
- Container widget
- A widget that may contain other widgets.
D
- Displayable class
- A class in the application for which a form can be created.
- Dynamic property
- The property, value of which may be changed at runtime.
- Dynamic widget
- A widget having a target.
F
- Form
- Form is a placeholder for widgets.
M
- MDI
- MDI is an acronym for Multiple Document Interface.
- MDI Application
- MDI applications allow multiple forms to be open in the same instance of
an application. An MDI application has a special form (MDI frame) within
which multiple independent MDI child forms can be opened. In some
applications, the child forms can be different or even attached to
different targets.
- MDI Child
- MDI child forms are overlapped inside the client area of the MDI frame
form. When they do not fit inside the client area, the scroll bars
appear.
- MDI Frame
- MDI Frame is usually the main application form. It has a special client
area that hosts MDI child forms.
- Modal form
- Modal forms require the user to respond before continuing the program.
When a modal form is displayed on the screen, it intercepts the control,
so the user has no access to any parent or sibling of the modal form.
Many DM applications are designed to use a sequence and/or a cascade of
modal forms.
- Modeless form
- Modeless forms stay on the screen and are available for use at any time
but permit other user activities. Several modeless forms may be opened
at the same time and the user may switch between them.
R
- Resource file
- A file containing the complete descriptions of the forms. Interface Builder
reads and updates information in the resource file that may be later
read by the DM runtime to instantiate forms on the screen and interact
with the application program. Plain text or internal binary formats are
supported for resource files.
S
- Static property
- The property, value of which may be defined at design time.
- Static widget
- A widget that may have no target.
T
- Target
- An object, for which the form is created, or a feature of the object, to
which the widget is bound.
W
- Widget
- A user interface element which is placed on the form.
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