The Eloquence Development Environment

IDM Dialog Plug-In Application Properties

This document defines the Application properties of the IDM Dialog Plug-in. It is called from the Dialog Plugin Configuration in the Application Propeties.

The integrated dialog editor uses plugin modules to handle various dialog formats. A plugin is responsible for loading and storing the resource file and translate it into or from the internal editor format. When the IDE is started, it locates the available plugins. This dialog provides access to plugin version information and plugin specific configuration settings.

Supported file types

The IDM Dialog Plug-In supports the IDM File Format (Extension: .idm), a plain text format which can be used for loading and saving files.

The IDM Dialog Plug-In Setup Dialog

Use Font Variant: The IDM format can provide multiple ressource variants (for different configurations or platforms). This defines the font variant which is used by the IDE to display dialog ressources. The default value is 1.
Use Color Variant: The IDM format can provide multiple ressource variants (for different configurations or platforms). This defines the font variant which is used by the IDE to display dialog ressources. The default value is 1.

Configuring the New-Dialog Template File

When a new IDM Dialog file is created, either using the File New command or typing a new file name in the Explorer Window, the IDM Dialog plugin loads a template file which normally provides an empty dialog window.

If you have special requirements what a new dialog file should contain, you can easily customize the template file.

The template file is called ide-idm.idm. It is located in the etc subdirectory below the Eloquence installation directory, e.g. C:/Program Files/Hewlett-Packard/Eloquence/etc/ide-idm.idm.