Understanding the Drilldown Interface
The Drilldown Interface
Terminology
The mobile/touch application style primarily uses a drilldown interface. It is ideally suited for writing applications that scale from mobile all the way up to desktop clients. This style assumes that an application is used by navigating forward until you find what you are looking for. You "drill down" by navigating forward from one view to another view. As you navigate forward, each view is added to a view stack that is represented visually by a "breadcrumb" control. At some point, you back out of the stack by navigating back, either one view at a time or multiple steps at once by selecting a previous item in the stack.
The framework defines certain properties and methods that allow it to bring the full power of the DataFlex DataDictionary Object (DDO) / Data Entry Object (DEO) interface to this style of application.
Related Topics
- Terminology
- View Type Property
- View Navigation Properties
- View Navigation Options
- Application Interfaces - Desktop vs. Drilldown
- Summary
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