User Interface 

The User Interface file allows you to define editing mode, commands, and components for JNet. The editing mode defines the possible changes that a user can make to a JNet document (Read Only, Select Only, Layout, Edit, for example). Commands are actions that the user can perform with JNet (Save As, Find, Select, New, for example). Components are all the visible elements of which the user interface consists (tool bar, work area, for example).

JNet provides default values for all the commands and components that you can use. You must define commands and components for the User Interface only, if you want to make changes to the default values. If you want to make changes to the existing User Interface, you can make changes to the existing UserInterface.xml file, create a new file, or use the <UserInterface> tag in the a new data file. If you want to make changes, you need to define the differences with the default values only.

The entries made in the <UserInterface> tag overwrite any definitions made in the UserInterface.xml. Using the <UserInterface> tag makes sense for testing purposes, or if you want to make changes to the UserInterface.xml at a later stage.

We recommend that you define as much information as possible in the UserInterface.xml, since you can reuse predefined commands.