Contents
NS-Designer Operation Manual
Section 3 Manipulating Project Files
3-1 Projects.......................................................................................................................................................3-1
3-2 Creating New Projects................................................................................................................................3-2
3-3 Opening Existing Projects.......................................................................................................................... 3-3
3-4 Saving Projects...........................................................................................................................................3-5
3-5 Saving a Project Under a Different Name..................................................................................................3-7
3-6 Opening Recent Projects ............................................................................................................................3-8
3-7 Opening Template Projects ........................................................................................................................3-9
3-7-1 Specifying Template Projects (Flowchart Step 1)..........................................................................3-10
3-7-2 Reusing Screens (Flowchart Steps 2 to 4)......................................................................................3-10
3-7-3 Canceling Template Projects..........................................................................................................3-11
3-8 Project Maintenance .................................................................................................................................3-12
3-8-1 Procedures...................................................................................................................................... 3-12
3-9 Project Properties .....................................................................................................................................3-17
3-9-1 Procedure ....................................................................................................................................... 3-17
3-10 Changing the PT Model ........................................................................................................................... 3-21
Section 4 Screen Types and Operations
4-1 Basic Operations ........................................................................................................................................4-1
4-1-1 Setting Screen Properties .................................................................................................................4-1
4-1-2 Grid Setting......................................................................................................................................4-4
4-1-3 Switching Items Displayed for Objects............................................................................................4-5
4-1-4 Changing the Display.....................................................................................................................4-14
4-1-5 Switch Label ..................................................................................................................................4-15
4-1-6 Show Touch Points ........................................................................................................................4-16
4-1-7 Zoom ..............................................................................................................................................4-16
4-1-8 Refreshing......................................................................................................................................4-17
4-2 Creating and Saving Screens....................................................................................................................4-18
4-2-1 Creating New Screens....................................................................................................................4-18
4-1-2 Screen Maintenance .......................................................................................................................4-22
4-1-3 Procedure ....................................................................................................................................... 4-23
4-3 Sheets .....................................................................................................................................................4-24
4-3-1 Creating New Sheets......................................................................................................................4-24
4-3-2 Opening Existing Sheets ................................................................................................................4-25
4-3-3 Closing Sheets................................................................................................................................4-25
4-3-4 Saving Sheets .................................................................................................................................4-26
4-3-5 Applying Sheets .............................................................................................................................4-26
4-3-6 Sheet Maintenance ......................................................................................................................... 4-27
4-4 Frames .....................................................................................................................................................4-28
4-4-1 Creating Frame Tab Names ...........................................................................................................4-30
4-4-2 Switching Frame Pages..................................................................................................................4-31
Section 5 Object Operations
5-1 Creating Functional Objects.......................................................................................................................5-1
5-1-1 Creating One Object at a Time.........................................................................................................5-1
5-1-2 Property Settings .............................................................................................................................. 5-2
5-1-3 Creating Functional Objects Using Tables.......................................................................................5-3
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