Project: HiCAD GUI Creator

Customer-specific Dialogues

HiCAD offers the option to create customer-specific dialogues. This is currently possible for:

• Installation elements for facades (Element installations and Sub-structures) and
• Railing components such as
• Posts,
• Hand rails,
• Planar infills,
• Transition infills,
• Corner infills or
• the Post-Handrail connection.

A prerequisite for the creation of such dialogues is that a corresponding variant for the installation element or the railing component exists.

The creation of such variants takes place in 4 steps:

• Creation of the desired geometry
• Parameterization by assigning of variables (optional) and - if required - of HCM constraints
• Determining the Fitting CS
• Save the variant with the special functions for element installations and/or railings These functions automatically create the files, catalogue entries, etc. required for the HiCAD Dialogue Editor when saving the variant. Furthermore, these functions can also be used to directly start the HiCAD Dialogue Editor.

If a corresponding variant exists, you can use the HiCAD Dialogue Editor (HiCAD GUI Creator) to design an individual user dialogue. The Dialogue Editor can be started automatically when saving a variant or manually by executing the EXE file

HiCADGUICreatorApp.exe

in the HiCAD EXEdirectory.

After calling the Editor the HiCAD GUI-Creator dialogue window will be displayed:

The user interface of the Dialogue Editor consists of the following areas:

1. Menu bar
   Management and editing of dialogue files
   
2. Toolbar 
   Management and editing of dialogue files and setting of a processing grid
3. Status bar
   Definition of the size of the dialogue window, zooming in and out of current dialogue and access to the TextTables Helper tool. This tool offers the option to access system texts that exist in HiCAD and use them in customer-specific dialogues.
   
4. Variables tab
   List of all defined variables.
5. Toolbox Tab
   List of the GUI objects that are supported by the HiCAD GUI Creator.
6. Current dialogue
   Display of the current dialogue
7. Utilized ToolBox objects
   Here the GUI objects used in in the current dialogues are shown in a tree structure. The parameters of the active object (highlighted red) can also be edited (format, size etc.).

Procedure • The Dialogue Editor (HiCAD GUI Creator)

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