Example: Connect parts
Suppose that you've made the user interface for AlarmClockView.
If you click on 
, the Test tool, the Alarm Clock window opens. But nothing happens when you click on a push button. To add function to the application, make two event-to-action connections and one attribute-to-attribute connection.
, the Test tool, the Alarm Clock window opens. But nothing happens when you click on a push button. To add function to the application, make two event-to-action connections and one attribute-to-attribute connection. Closing Alarm Clock when Cancel is clicked
Connect the clicked event of the Cancel push button to the closeWidget action of the Window part. To draw the connection:
1. Using mouse button 2, click on the Cancel push button. (For UNIX, use mouse button 3.)
2. From the push button's displayed pop-up menu, select Connect > clicked.
3. Once you make the selection, you'll see 
instead of your mouse pointer and a red line running from the push button to the
instead of your mouse pointer and a red line running from the push button to the 4. Using mouse button 1, click on the Window part.
5. From the Window part's displayed pop-up menu, select closeWidget.
The connection appears as follows:
Now, if you click on and then Cancel in the displayed Alarm Clock window, the window closes.
and then Cancel in the displayed Alarm Clock window, the window closes. Opening the message box when Set Alarm is clicked
Repeat the above steps, except connect the clicked event of the Set Alarm push button to the prompt action of the Message Prompter part.
After you draw the connection, click on and then Set Alarm to open the message box.
and then Set Alarm to open the message box. Note that you'll be replacing this connection with a script. But adding the connection now enables you to test the Message Prompter part.
Enabling the message box to show the message
So the Message Prompter part knows what message to display, draw an attribute-to-attribute connection as follows:
1. Using mouse button 2, click on the Multi-line Edit part. (For UNIX, use mouse button 3.)
2. From its pop-up menu, select Connect > All features.
3. In the displayed Connections window, select string from the list of attributes (middle pane); then select OK.
4. Click the now shown on the Message Prompter part.
now shown on the Message Prompter part. 5. From its pop-up menu, select messageString.
After you draw the connection, your Composition Editor shows the following:
If you click on , type a message into the multi-line edit field, and click on Set Alarm, you'll see the message in the displayed message box.
, type a message into the multi-line edit field, and click on Set Alarm, you'll see the message in the displayed message box. Last modified date: 08/08/2019