Application Designer

The power of lyteRAD is all about building your own application quickly and sharing it with others. If you have created tables and reports as required, you can use the application designer to put together the final application.

The Designer Click on Packager in the top menu and select create application, which will launch the Application Designer. The first window to popup is the Application properties window, where you will have to provide a name for the application, choose a splash screen and icon. Help text can be a short description of the application. You can also use a complete HTML document as help text if needed.
Widgets The top part of the designer consists of a row of widgets that can be added to an application. Widgets are user interface elements that provide the primary means of interaction with users. They visualize and render existing table data. Multiple widgets can be used to provide different representations of the same data.
Designer Layout The designer layout is split into three areas. There is a large preview pane on the right side, which shows a preview of the currently selected widget. You can select widgets for preview by clicking on the widget toolbar on top. Any widgets that you add to the application will be listed in the box at the bottom left. Adding Widgets To add the currently selected widget to the application, click on the add button. This will popup the widget parameters window. Widgets need to know some pieces of information before being fully functional. For example the report widget will need to know the name of the report that needs to be previewed. You can add as many number of widgets you need to provide the required functionality.

Finally clicking on save will generate the application which will be stored in the selected workspace.