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Window Navigation Diagram

The following steps explain the window navigation diagram.

1. To add a new client procedure to our Navigation Diagram, we must first open the Window Navigation Diagram. If it is closed, open the Window Navigation Diagram. Refer back to a prior section if you need help.
2. On the Window Navigation Diagram tool palette, there is an icon for adding a window, and another for adding a dialog. Regardless of whether you are adding a new client procedure with a primary window or a new client procedure with a primary dialog, you always use the Add Window icon for adding a new procedure. On the subsequent properties panel, you choose whether it is to be a primary window or a primary dialog. The Add Dialog icon is used only for adding secondary dialogs to existing procedures.
3. From the tool palette, select the Add Window icon and, with the cursor, select any location in the Navigation Diagram that is above and to the left of the Maintain Golfer server procedure. If the cursor resembles the international no symbol, it is because you have a server highlighted. You can ignore that symbol for now.
4. In the Window / Dialog Properties panel, under Type select the Primary Dialog Boxradio button. Under Style, un-check System Menu. Then, in the Title: entry field, enter eGolf Services (which is the name that will appear on the Web Browser title bar), and in the Name: entry field enter egolf services home. Select the OK push button.
5. To add the Registration secondary dialog, from the tool palette select the Add Dialog icon and with the cursor (which now resembles the international no symbol), click directly on the eGolf Services primary dialog you just added. In the Window/Dialog Properties panel, notice that the Type is already set to Dialog and cannot be changed. Change the Initial Position to System Placed, remove the check from System Menu, for the Title: enter eGolf Services Registration, and for the Name: enter egolfer registration. Select the OK push button.
6. To add the Login secondary dialog, do exactly the same thing we did earlier in step number five for the Registration secondary dialog, but for the Title:, enter eGolf Services Login, and for the Name:, enter egolfer login.
7. To add the eGolfer Home procedure step and primary dialog, from the main menu select the Add Window icon and select a position on the Navigation Diagram somewhere above the Maintain Scoring Record server procedure. In the Window / Dialog Properties panel, change the Type to Primary Dialog Box, under Style un-check the System Menu, in the Title: enter eGolfer Home, and for the Name: enter egolfer home. Select the OK push button.
8. Arrange the dialogs roughly as shown by click-and-dragging them to the desired location:

   

While it is not imperative that you use the names suggested earlier, using the recommended names will help avoid confusion later in the Tutorial, as statements in the procedure step action diagrams will reference these dialog names.

Note: If you need to change the names or properties of the dialogs, select the dialog. Then from the Main Menu select Detail, and then select Properties.

Your dialogs should have a solid blue bar across the top as shown in the previous diagram. If they do not, you can have added them as primary windows instead of as primary dialogs. If you need to change them, go to their Properties panel. Alternatively, you can select them, delete them, and add them back again as primary dialogs.