The Screen Editor has two basic parts, the Iris Form Designer and the Object Inspector. You can open pages which are running in an application, change the page and save the changes without stopping the application. Within the Iris Form Designer all objects are available to use on a screen. The objects are standard organized within tabs, these tabs can be managed to get a layout that fits the user. Third party objects can be implemented by importing ActiveX components. The Iris Form Designer offers developers the possibility to show the screen in runtime mode, during development. This means that you can easily determine how the application will look like and behave. The Object Inspector shows all properties available for the selected object. The properties are categorized by functionality and can be changed during engineering time as well as during runtime. You are able to use the Iris Object Oriented Programming Language (Iris Programming Language, IPL) for many tasks, like programming event handlers. IPL allows access to all tag data and tag & screen properties. There is a large range of different events available for each object like “OnClick”, “OnKeyPress” and many others.
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