Component Palette

    Components are the building blocks of XELFI IDE. They are situated in Component Palette in main Xelfi Window. Component Palette consists of several page tabs. Each page tab in the Component palette displays a group of icons representing the components used to design your application interface.

    You can edit the Component Palette using Palette Manager (see chapter ??? Palette Manager).

    Component Palette can be in two modes: selection and addition. Selection mode (white arrow at the left side of the palette is pressed) means that you can select components in form. When the shift key is pressed during selection, you select/deselect more than one component. (see chapter ???). The second mode is addition mode. In Component Palette is pressed some component button and when you click in the area of form you add this component. If you hold down shift key then you can add multiple components of the same type, otherwise after adding first component automatic shift to selection mode is performed.


Palette Manager

    Palette manager you can find in menu Design. The window of palette manager is shown on the picture. You can edit the list of the pages (1) and in each page you can see and edit the list of the components (2). To change the order of the pages use spinbutton (3). Selected page is moved either up or down. At the current position you can insert new blank page by pressing button Insert (4). For remove page and rename page use buttons (5) and (6).

    In each page you can add new components (8) at the position of cursor in the list (2). You have to insert full name of Xcomponent with the package and the name of the component class (like "xelfi.design.components.xawt.Xbutton"). To remove selected component from the list just press Delete button (9). When you press default button (10) configuration of Component palette will be set as default (3 pages: Standard, Extended and Samples). Ok (11) and Cancel (12) have usual functions.