Interface Design Overview

This topic describes the components used to create XForms.

Process Platform provides you with various features to create interactive XForms. These features are grouped as given below:

• Containers: Invisible placeholders that hold layouts and controls. Containers help define properties such as size and context-menu options during design time.
  
• Layouts: Visual organization of controls in an XForm. You can also specify layouts for composite controls such as tabs, boxes, groups, and splitters. Layouts can be vertical, horizontal, or free.
  
• Controls: Interface entities used to perform a task. A control may contain other controls or may be associated with elements.
  
• Elements: Interface entities such as zoom button and element bar that are used with controls.
  
• Positions: Visual organization of controls in an XForm, independent of the parent control's layout. The position of a control overwrites the layout applicable to it. Positions can be vertical, horizontal, or free.
  
  Process Platform XForms uses style sheets to define the appearance of the XForms created.