ICS Tutorials - Tutorial Five - Designing for Consistency and Flexibility

5ICS Tutorials: Designing for Consistency and FlexibilityIn this tutorial, you will create a hierarchy of resource styles and apply them to theobjects in a simple interface. You will also learn to use constants and identifiers to createconsistent and maintainable interfaces.Before You Begin• Make a new directory called tutorial_5 and change directories to tutorial_5. If you have not started Builder Xcessory yet, enter the following at the prompt inthe tutorial_5 directory:Start Builder Xcessory % bxGetting StartedInitialize your application as follows:1. Clear the Builder Xcessory display by selecting New from the Main Window FileClearing An Interfacemenu.2. Open the UIL file you saved at the end of tutorial four: /tutorial_4.uil3. Select Save As... from the Main Window File menu and save your UIL file astutorial_5.uil in the tutorial_5 directory you just created.Resource StylesThe Style Manager allows you to create combinations of resources that you can apply tomultiple interfaces to maintain a consistent appearance.Copyright © 2001-2002 Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. ICS TUTORIALS 1ICS TUTORIALS: DESIGNING FOR CONSISTENCY AND FLEXIBILITY5 RESOURCE STYLESUsing the StyleNote: This tutorial assumes that you have not already created resource styles. Therefore,ManagerBaseStyle will be the only style that exists in the Style Manager, and the first styleyou create will be named BaseStyle1.1. Select ...