The purpose of the Dialog entity is to develop and generate
online systems.
A Dialog represents the interaction between Screens that are logically
related to each other. A Dialog is therefore made up of a logical
family of Screens. It is described independently of the physical
characteristics of the environment or the TP monitor in use.
For each Dialog, you define the characteristics common to all the
Screens which make up the Dialog. These characteristics, which become
the default values of the Screens, are the:
- Presentation options, specified on the Dialog Definition tab:
- The number of lines and columns on the Screen,
- The type of label used for Data Elements (long, short, relational,
column),
- The general presentation of these Data Elements (number of elements
per line, alignment, etc.),
- The presentation attributes (intensity, color) according to the
nature of the data (displayed fields, input fields, labels, error
messages, etc.).
- Common files (common area, error messages file), as well as some
processing options, specified on the Dialog Complement tab.
You may override these default options for each Screen of the
Dialog if necessary.
You cannot generate a whole Dialog but you can generate each of
its Screens, one at a time.