AppGuru Designer

AppGuru provides a fast way to create a standard interface by giving you access to reusable designs, called templates. You can create your own templates and make them available to other users. Templates are created and stored in the AppGuru Designer dialog. When a template is selected from this dialog, the design it describes is automatically added to your session of X-Designer Display the AppGuru Designer dialog by selecting "AppGuru Designer" from the Tools menu or by pressing the AppGuru button on the toolbar.

Using AppGuru templates has the following benefits:

  1. Styles which must be used within a company or for a particular application are enforced from the beginning.
  2. Designs are pre-configured for convenience and to avoid errors.
  3. The basic design of dialogs which are very similar can be re-used.

With AppGuru Designer you can:

  1. Create new templates "from scratch".
  2. Edit existing templates.
  3. Prime a new template from your current design.
  4. Select a template to add to your current X-Designer session.

An optional description field in the template definition allows you to provide some information to help you and other users understand what the selected template provides, before adding it to a design.

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