Screens¶

The Admiral¶

The application entry point is the Admiral. It simply lists the modules, and the selection of a module displays the list of features related to that module. Kind of menu and sub-menu.

You can find here the exhaustive list of modules in digset.

The Search screen¶

Usually, a feature is accessible through a Search screen. The search screen allows to specify criterias and fill a list of matching entities.

The typical Search screen has next to the criterias the following control buttons :

• a Search button that fills the grid according to the criterias
• a Clear button to reset the criterias
• a Close button to close the screen.

It also has next to the grid the following control buttons :

• an Add button to create a new entity
• an Edit button to modifiy selected entity
• a Duplicate button to create a new entity pre-filled with selected one
• an Export button to generate a spreadsheet in cvs format

The Input screen¶

The creation or modification of an entity is done through an Input screen.

The Input screen can be called in three modes :

• Read : an existing entity is shown in read only
• Edition : an exisiting is shown and can be modified.
• Creation : a new entity will be created

The typical Input screen has the following control buttons :

• Delete : deletes the selected entity (only in Creation mode)
• Save : records the changes in Edition mode, creates the new entity in Creation mode.
• Cancel : does nothing

The Input screen can have two input types :

• Impatient : the screen opens in Edit mode
• Intuitive : the screen opens in Read mode and there are buttons to switch to Edition mode.

Furthermore, the Input screen has four behaviours, when a control button is pressed :

• Go to Read mode : the screen switches to Read mode, showing the selected entity
• Go to Creation mode : the screen switches to Insert mode, ready to add another entity
• Stay in Edition mode : the screen doesn’t switch mode
• Closes : the screen is closed

Some mixes of mode/_input type_/_behaviour_ are obviously not possible. As the Impatient behaviour never switches to Read mode, there is no Go-to-Read-mode behaviour.

The Search screen calls the Input screen in Creation mode when the button Add or the button Duplicate is pressed, in Edition or Read mode when the button Edit is pressed.

Usually the screens with complex information are opened in Intuitive input type. It is possible in such screens that some actions have to be done after the entity is saved.

The List screen¶