About Visually Designing MIDP Applications
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The Visual Mobile Designer (VMD) enables you to visually design your
application's flow and graphical user interface (GUI). As you drag and drop
objects into the Flow Designer, Screen Designer, the IDE
generates and updates the Java code that
implements your design.
To use the VMD, you work with files created by the VMD templates, available
from the New File wizard. You cannot use the VMD to edit GUI forms
that were created outside of the IDE. Note also that if you edit the
code generated
by the VMD in the Source Editor, you can no longer work in the visual mode.
The VMD provides the following tools to simplify the process of
designing your MIDP applications, including:
- Flow Designer.
The primary workspace for the VMD. In this space, you map out the flow of
the application by adding screens and other UI components, and associating
commands with the components. It enables you to view forms in both Source
and Design views.
- Screen Designer.
Enables you to design and modify screens within your application.
- Inspector Window.
Displays a tree hierarchy of all components contained in the currently active
application, including screens, commands, and resources.
- Component Palette.
Contains the Java objects you can add to your application.
- Component Palette
Manager. Enables you to add your own screens and objects to the
Component Palette.
- Properties Sheet.
Displays the editable settings for the currently selected component.
- See Also
- Visual Mobile Designer Tasks: Quick Reference
- Working with the Visual Mobile Designer
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