The Layout Wizard

Nexaweb Studio provides layout panes and the Layout wizard to help you quickly organize user interfaces.

The following table describes the methods by which you can access layout panes.

Option

Description

To Access

Layout Wizard

A Nexaweb Studio view that allows you to select the layout pane to associate with a container and to specify settings for the selected layout.

Right click in a XAL UI file and select Refactor Layout.

Layout Panes drawer

The Nexaweb Studio Palette view includes the Layout Panes drawer. Drag a layout pane from this drawer into your file to associate that layout pane with that file or container.

Click on the Layout Panes drawer in the Palette view to open it.

Note: To open Palette view, select Window > Show View > Palette

Note: For NXML files, Nexaweb Studio provides Layout Managers and a Layout Managers drawer in the Palette view to aid you in UI layout.

The Layout wizard appears similar to the following:

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Figure 12. Layout Wizard

The Layout wizard provides a means by which you can configure the layout settings of the selected layout pane or change it to another type of layout pane.

The available layout settings differ based on the layout pane selected. For a description of the layout settings available for each of the layout panes, see the description of the layout panes in the Layout Panes section.

To learn more about the different layout panes, check out the UI Sample Explorer, one of the samples included in the Nexaweb Platform 4.x installation. In addition, see the Nexaweb Platform Concept Guide and the XML Reference Guide – User Interface.