Screens

The Client Screens panel is designed to contain the lists of screens that you want to access from your Client Script. Generally these screens should be designed in such a way that they do not need updating after the client has been distributed. The types of screens that are common in the client are a welcome screen, a download progress screen for downloading the server configuration files and an error handling screen.

Note: If a new client screen is added, or if one of the client screens has been modified after being distributed, the TrueUpdate Client will need to update itself causing the update process to restart after the server configuration files have been downloaded.

When a screen is highlighted in the screens panel, a preview of the selected screen will appear in the Screen Preview panel.

At the top of the Client Screens panel, there are a series of buttons for manipulating the client's screens and screen lists. They are defined as follows:

Add Screen List ( )

Add a new screen list to the client. A screen list contains a group of screens that you want to show in your update. Screen lists allow you group screens together in blocks that you want to show at certain points in your update.

Add Screen ( )

Open the Screen Gallery dialog where you can add a new client screen to your update.

Note: Screens can only be added to a screen list, therefore at least one screen list must be added in order to add a screen.

Remove Screen ( )

Remove the selected screen(s) or screen list(s) from the client.

Note: Removing a screen list will also remove all screens that it contains.

Edit Screen ( )

Open the selected screen's properties dialog where you can configure its settings.

Up ( )

Move the selected screen(s) or screen list(s) up one position.

Down ( )

Move the selected screen(s) or screen list(s) down one position.

Advanced Options ( )

Add to Gallery

Opens the Add to Gallery dialog where you can add a custom screen to the global screen gallery.

Export Language

Expands to a menu containing all languages in the project available for export. Clicking on a language will open a Save As dialog so you can choose the path that the selected language will be exported to. A dialog message will notify you of success or failure.

Import Language

Open a file browse dialog so you can select a screen's language XML file that you want to import into the currently selected screen. A dialog message will notify you of success or failure.