Appearance Preferences

This document provides the details of the Appearance preferences elements.

Requirements
Reference Framework 2.0 runs against Nexaweb Platform 4.5.33 or higher.

pageStyle

Determines how the pages will be displayed when loaded as tabs, windows or a single document interface (SDI).

Configuration

<pageStyle>tabs</pageStyle>

Optional values:

     tabs

    

     windows

     

     sdi

     

 

menuStyle

Configure the style of the menu.

Configuration

<menuStyle>popup</menuStyle>

Optional values: 

    none: No menu will be displayed.   


    


    popup: A pop-up menu with accordions that pops up from a button in the lower left of the application.

   


    popdown: A pop-up menu with accordions that drops down from a button in the top left of the application.
   

   

    dropdown: A regular Java styled drop-down menu, located at the top of the application.
    

    

    sidebar: A menu permanently displayed as a side bar on the left side of the application.
 

   

  

    tree: A menu permanently displayed as a tree on the left side of the application.

     

     xal:  Displays the XAL defined in the xalMenu element as a sidebar to the page. Use with xalMenu

 

commandbarLocation

The location of the command bar.

Configuration

<commandbarLocation>top</commandbarLocation>

Optional values: 

        none     :  the command bar is not visible.      

         

 
        top     :  the command bar is located at the top of the application.    

       

 

        bottom     :  the command bar is located in the lower right corner of the application.

        

 

statusbarVisible

Indicates whether or not the statusbar is visible.

Configuration

<statusbarVisible>true</statusbarVisible>

Optional values: true|false

          true: status bar will be visible

        

          false: status bar will be invisible

        

 

menuLocation

Specifies the location of the menu with relation to the commandBar.

Configuration

<menuLocation>below</menuLocation>

Optional values: 

        above    :  the menu will be placed above the commandBar.

       


        below     :  the menu will be placed below the commandBar.

       

        left        :  the menu will be placed to the left of the commandBar.

       


        right      :  the menu will be placed to the right of the commandBar.

       

NOTE :

The menuLocation setting only applies to the dropdown menu style.

The menuLocation does not have to be set.  The default value is above.

 

xalMenu

xalMenu is only valid when menu-style is set as xal. Once this is set, the specified page will be displayed as sidebar and all the other menus will be ignored

Configuration

 <xalMenu>/XAL/Nexaweb/Custom.xal</xalMenu>