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Working With Templates

The Page Wizard gives you the option of creating a new page using a template. A template is a ready-made page with objects that are already in a specific layout and have many of their properties and to-do lists set. Although much of the work is done for you in a template, you still need to customize and complete the set up of the objects to make the page suit the needs of your application.

Important: Selecting a template creates a new page; you cannot add a template to an existing page.

There are five different categories of templates, called template packs. Each template pack is actually a . jmb file that contains several templates (pages) from which to choose. The following list provides a brief description of each available template pack:

Template Pack Name:

Description:

Backgrnd The Background template pack contains background pages. You may find some of these predefined pages useful and timesaving.
Headers The Headers template pack contains pages that have objects that you would typically display across the top of a page. For example, one Header template uses a cycling (animated) graphic in the top corner of the and another displays a ticker tape message scrolling across the top of the screen.
Main The Main template pack contains pages that typically make up the main body of information that you would display on a page. For example, there are Text, Graphic and Button objects that the user can click to trigger an action.
Menu The Menu template pack contains pages with objects that let the user make a selection from a menu to go to another page in the application.
Navigate The Navigation template pack contains pages with objects that typically appear along the bottom of a page. These are usually navigation buttons, such as Next Page and Previous Page buttons.

Adding a Template Page

Use the Page Wizard to add a template page. You can add a standard page, a background page, or both simultaneously. If you add both types of pages, the background page you select is automatically associated with the standard page.

To add a template page:

1. Click on the Page Wizard button.

The Page Wizard appears, displaying the following options.

2. Click on the "Create a page using a Template" option and click on Next.

The following fields appear.

3. If you are using a template to create a standard page, select the desired Template Pack from the top list and select the specific template page from the bottom list. Otherwise, leave the lists set to None.

4. Click on Next.

One of two screens appears depending on whether you selected a standard page template on the previous screen. If you selected a standard page template, the next screen lets you name the new standard page.

5. If you selected a standard page template, provide a new name and click on Next. Otherwise, skip to step 6 for information on the next screen.

6. After you finish setting options for a standard page template, the following screen appears which lets you, optionally, select a background page template.

7. If you are using a template to create a background page, select the desired background Template Pack from the top list and select the specific background template page from the bottom list. Otherwise, leave the lists set to None.

8. If you choose not to create a background page, click on Finish. Otherwise, click on Next to display the next screen which lets you name the background page.

9. If you selected a background page template, provide a new name and click on Finish.

Any new template pages that you specified are added to the project.

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