Appli Documentation

André Alves Garzia
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Table Of Contents

  1. Disclaimer
  2. The Login Screen
  3. The Project Selection Screen
  4. Overview of Appli IDE Interface
  5. Tools palette
  6. Keyboard Shortcuts
  7. Screen Management
  8. Property Inspector
  9. Responsive Design
  10. Low-Code & Action Scripts
  11. Data Management
  12. Tutorial: Cool Coffee Shops
  13. Elements
  14. Element: Browser
  15. Element: Button
  16. Element: Camera
  17. Element: Create Account
  18. Element: Dropdown
  19. Element: Field
  20. Element: Graphic
  21. Element: Image
  22. Element: Layout
  23. Element: Login
  24. Element: Map
  25. Element: Radio Group
  26. Element: Search Field
  27. Element: Switch
  28. Element: Tab Menu
  29. Element: Table
  30. Element: Text
  31. Element: Media
  32. Element: Form
  33. Element: LineGraph
  34. Image Credits

Element: Tab Menu

This element is a tab menu. It can contain multiple tabs each with their own collection of elements.

Each tab contains their own elements. To edit a specific tab, change the selectedTab property using the property inspector, and then add elements to it by dragging and dropping them on top of the tab.

To change a tab name, select the tab using the selectedTab property and change the tabName property. That property always display the name of the selected tab.

Events

Tab menus have a mouseUp event that can be configured using low-code. This event is triggered when the user changes the selected tab.

Properties

Size Section

This section is used to configure the tab menu size and position.

Property Description
top The value in pixels representing how far the element is from the top of the window.
left The value in pixels representing how distant element is from the left side of the window.
width The value in pixels representing the distance between the left side of the element and its right side.
height The value in pixels representing the distance between the bottom side of the element and its top side.

Geometry Section

Use the properties in this section to configure the responsive design behaviors for the element.

Property Description
lockAspectRatio Locks the aspect ratio of the element.
responsive-x How the element resizes responding to screen changes in the X axis.
responsive-y How the element resizes responding to screen changes in the Y axis.
allowInIOSNotch Allows the element to be drawn outside the safe area on iOS. Will draw underneath the notch in iOS.

Text Section

The properties in this section are used together with those in the appearance section to configure how the element is displayed on the screen. This section deals with the properties related to text used by the tab menu.

Property Description
textSize The text size used in the element’s text.
textStyle The style used in the element’s text. It can be bold, italic, underlined, and strikethrough.
textAlignment The text alignment used for the element’s text. It can be aligned to the left, right, or center.

Appearance Section

This section is used to configure how the tab menu looks.

Property Description
headerTextColor The color used by the header text.
backgroundColor The color used for the element’s background.
headerColor The color used by the header background.
blendLevel How transparent the element is.
activeTabColor The color used to hilite which tab is selected.

Element Section

This section is contains properties that are specific to elements of type tab menu.

Property Description
name The name of the element. Displayed in the project browser.
numberOfTabs How many tabs the tab menu element contains.
selectedTab Which of tabs is the active tab.
tabName The name of the selected tab.
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