Working With Templates
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TPDesign4 (v3.2 or higher)
Creating Preview Images section on page 335 for details.
Required Template Elements
When designing a template it is important to remember the rules that govern elements and their relation with
the templates. The chart below demonstrates these rules (FIG. 383):
The template must have at least one of each of the following elements:
Projects that utilize custom palettes must also contain one preview image for each
color palette that will be available for selection in VisualArchitect (via the Color
Schemes option). See the Chameleon Images and Custom Palettes section on
page 336 for details.
FIG. 383 VisualArchitect Templates - Required Template Elements
VisualArchitect Templates - Required Template Elements
Navigation Elements
This is the main menu where most of your navigation selections are made.
• Consists of at least one popup but can contain multiple Popups.
• Cannot contain any pages
• Only one can be displayed at a time.
[ nav#navName] pageName
• navName • The name of the Navigation as it will appear within VisualArchitect.
• pageName • The base page name that will be used in the generated TP4 project.
Only one of the pages or Popups in A Navigation element can contain an Info button. The Info button contains
the page flip information for displaying the Navigation element and can contain an optional icon image.
[info]buttonName
• buttonName This is unused and the button is deleted in the generated TP4 project.
The Popups in the Navigation element must contain at lest one item button that will be filled with navigation
information. Item buttons are ordered within the Navigation element in order of left to right then top to bottom.
VisualArchitect Templates - Required Template Elements (Cont.)
Navigation Elements (Cont.)
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