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Panel Design

The Toolkit panel design aids include facilities both for creating and presenting panel designs.

Panel designs can quickly be created using an interactive editor:

• Panel images, narrative and branching logic to describe how the panel designs connect with other panel designs can all be specified and documented.
• The panel design utility has many features to accelerate design, including line move, block move, save, and copy functions.
• Existing display file source can be converted back to a design.

Panel designs can be displayed as simulated programs using a special prototyping utility:

• All fields have their appropriate display attributes for example, only input capable fields are input capable). No compilation is required.
• Realistic data values can be set up in both input and output fields to help the user understand what goes where.
• The specified branching logic will be followed, so that panel conversations can be fully illustrated.

Panel designs can be documented to a high standard.

• Indexing and print sequencing of the designs is allowed.

Display file DDS can be generated directly from the designs.

• Standards will automatically be applied to the generated code.