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User Interface Toolbox

The User Interface Toolbox provides a wide range of icons that you can use to create graphical user interface diagrams.

User Interface Toolbox pages

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Detail

See also

toolsuserinterface

 

A Package is a namespace as well as an element that can be contained in other packages' namespaces.

A Screen element represents a graphical user interface. You can place GUI elements onto the screen element (see below).

UI Control elements are placed onto the screen element to build up a graphical user interface diagram. There are different stereotyped elements such as buttons and combo boxes.

An Object is an instance of a Class.

Package

 

Screen
 

UI Control

 

Object

ScreenGUI

 

The diagram on the left illustrates all of the GUI elements from the Toolbox, within a Screen element.

 

Notes

To add an element to the currently-open diagram, click on the appropriate icon and drag it into position on the diagram; set an element name and other properties as prompted
To add a relationship, click on the appropriate icon, then click on the start element in the diagram and drag to the end element