Explaining the User Interface
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The EIP Templates look and feel is designed in such a way that it resembles the existing Clarion templates as much as possible. This makes it straight forward and easy to use since you already know how to use the standard Clarion templates. For example you want an ordinary edit-in-place entry field in your List Box and you want to set some of the standard entry properties. The template IDE (Integrated development environment) for the entry field as you know it looks like:


entryproperties


In the EIP Template the IDE for the column entry properties looks like:


generalentry


As you can see there is some minor differences but overall it is just as you know it. Prompts missing just indicate that you can not set that particularly property. There is also new prompts which you don't find in the standard templates. These prompts just adds specific edit-in-place functionality.

An other place where this template distinguish it self from the standard Clarion templates is with buttons that open up a new window with prompts. Beside these buttons there is a check box which is marked if the underlying prompts have been populated. So if there is no mark you don't have to select the button to determine if any prompts are populated.


checkexample


In the above screen shot you can see that there is only one out of the six buttons where the underlying prompts have been populated.