Working With Pages and Popup Pages
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TPDesign4 Touch Panel Design Program
Adding a New Popup Page
To add a new popup page to the active project:
1. Select Page > Add Popup Page (or click the toolbar icon) to open the Add Popup Page dialog.
2. Enter a descriptive name for the new popup page in the Name field (50 characters max - avoid
using inappropriate file name characters).
3. Click the down-arrow to open the Border Style drop-down menu, and click to select the
desired border style for the popup page.
4. In the Position fields, enter Left and Top coordinates (in pixels, relative to the upper-left corner
of the page which is 0,0) for the desired placement of the popup page when it displayed on the
panel. Use the Position fields when you need to achieve exact positioning.
You can also set it's position manually by dragging it wherever you want it to appear. To
position the Popup manually, you must first enable the Show Popup Pages option in the Page
menu. This option opens the Select Popup Pages to Show dialog, where you can select the
Popup Page that you want to display on the page. Once the Popup is displayed on the page, you
can click and drag to position it manually.
Note that once you specify the position of the Popup on the page, any time you display the
Popup (via the Page > Show Popup Pages option), the Popup will always appear in the
position specified, regardless of the page that you display on.
5. In the Size fields, enter the desired Width and Height dimensions (in pixels) for the popup
window. Popup Pages may be created in any size beyond the minimum and up to the maximum
size of the panel. If you create a popup page with either the width dimension or the height
dimension smaller than 100, you will begin to see a crosshatched background to the Design
View window. This feature prevents the creation of a Design View window so small that you
would be unable to move the window around the desktop with the mouse. The design area is
inside the crosshatched area.
You can also set the dimensions manually by dragging the sizing handles on the Popup. To
resize the Popup manually, you must first enable the Show Popup Pages option in the Page
menu. This option opens the Select Popup Pages to Show dialog, where you can select the
Popup Page that you want to display on the page. Once the Popup is displayed on the page, you
can click and drag the red handles on the Popup to resize it manually.
Note that once you resize the Popup on the page, any time you display the Popup (via the
Page > Show Popup Pages option), the Popup will retain the dimensions specified, regardless
of the page that you display on.
6. Set the Page Background color:
a. Click the browse icon next to "Page Background" to open the Colors dialog.
If a button is selected in a Design View window when you invoke the Add Popup Page
dialog, then the initial values for Left, Top, Width and Height of the new popup page
will match the selected button. Use this feature as a shortcut, especially in cases
where you plan to create several popup pages of the same size and position.
The minimum size for popup pages is 15 pixels in height or width.
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