DESIGN

Class

Information Center

Purpose

Initiate the Recital Information Center in Design mode

Syntax

DESIGN

See Also

CATALOG(), CREATE, CREATE LABEL, CREATE REPORT, CREATE SCREEN, MODIFY LABEL, MODIFY REPORT, MODIFY SCREEN, MODIFY STRUCTURE, SET CATALOG, SET TITLE

Description

The DESIGN command initiates the Recital Information Center in Design mode. The INFO command initiates the Recital Information Center with Design mode off.

The Recital Information Center is a powerful worksurface, from which any type of data may be accessed, viewed, modified and organized. Within the Recital Information Center, you can organize files into catalogs that represent a single application, an application interface or development project. The rich functionality of the Recital Information Center includes a graphical-like user interface with CUA compliant components, access to Recital worksurfaces, object oriented design tools and connectivity to foreign databases.

Design mode allows access to CREATE and MODIFY worksurfaces as well as the complete range of design tools. Design mode may also be enabled with the SET DESIGN command. When in Design mode, the Recital Information Center displays a [DESIGN] key that is used to access the development worksurfaces. Design mode also displays the names of program and application files. When Design mode is disabled, files with '.app' or '.prg' extensions are only displayed in catalogs to which they have been added.

The SET CATALOG TO <expC> command allows the specified catalog file to be used when the Recital Information Center is activated. If a catalog with the name specified in <expC> does not exist, it will be created. SET CATALOG ON causes all newly created files to be added automatically to the currently open catalog. When SET CATALOG is OFF, the currently open catalog is closed and automatic file adding is disabled. Catalogs may also be opened from within the Recital Information Center and files added to a catalog using the appropriate menu items.

The Recital Information Center menu bar provides access to a wide range of decision support tools, application objects and work surfaces. The menu bar contains the following options:

Menu	Description
File	Catalog file tasks
Edit	Database table record options
Options	Catalog file options
Tools	Popup Calculator, Time Manager and Notepad
Customize	Environment customization toggles
Summary	Financial and statistical calculations
Organize	Database table operations
Report	Quick and Custom Report and Label options
Help	Help System, Key Help and Technical Support

The Recital Information Center contains six file panels providing vertical listings of filenames without extensions. Each panel represents a different category or file type and contains a <create> button giving access to the appropriate create worksurface.

Panel	File Types
Data	Table (.dbf), gateway (.gtw), bridge (.brg), view (.vue).
Text	Text (.txt)
Form	Screen format (.fmt)
Report	Report format (.frm) Treport (.trf)
Label	Label format (.lbl)
Program	Application (.app), program (.prg)

Example

set catalog to customer
design

Products

Recital Terminal Developer