Navigation Links of a Window’s Outbound Plugs 

A window’s plugs are displayed on the Window tab page in its tree structure below the root node, parallel to the embedded view. Similarly to the plugs of a view, you can create navigation links for the window’s outbound plugs in this display.

Select the outbound plug you require and open its context menu using the left mouse button. Choose the entry Create Navigation Link. In the dialog box that appears, enter the name of the target view as well as the required inbound plug.

 You can also create the navigation link using the drag and drop function, by selecting the icon for the outbound plug in the tree structure and holding the mouse button down to drag it to the icon for the selected inbound plug. When you let go of the mouse button, a dialog box appears displaying the properties of the navigation you just created. The new navigation link is created when you confirm this window.

 

Navigation to a Window

A navigation link that starts at a window outbound plug in the window always ends at an inbound plug of one or more views of the same window. There are, however, different ways of initiating navigation using an inner outbound plug.

Navigation from Outside the Window

If the window is controlled using an inbound plug of its interface view, in the corresponding event handler you can determine dynamically which inner outbound plug is called, and thus which window view is displayed next.

Navigation from Within the Window

An outbound plug can also be called in an inbound plug's event handler method that was controlled by a view within the window. This makes sense if the sequence of views should be controlled dynamically in the event handler method of the inner inbound plug.

 

Navigation from a Window

A navigation link that starts at an interface outbound plug in the window always ends at an inbound plug of one or more views of an embedding window. The interface outbound plug is called by the event handler of an inbound plug from the embedded window.