Application Properties
This document gives description of Application Properties in Fluency.
What is Application Properties?
Application Properties are certain properties of a fluency application which are save as part of the application whenever a fluency application is saved.
It includes:
Application Name:
When you start Fluency, it will start up with a new fluency application. This Fluency Application is named as "Fluency Application 1". The name of the application appears on the title bar of the Fluency Application Window. Image 1 indicates that.
Image 1. Application Name
Author:
An author is the author of the fluency application. By default fluency takes the current username as the author of the fluency application. The image 2 shows the Application Properties dialog box:
Image 2. Application Properites
Where do I find it?
Application Properties can be found in under the File Menu of Fluency Editor. Image 3 shows that:
Image 3. File -> Application Properties.
How does it work?
When a fluency application is saved. Fluency actually saves all the widgets, their properties, pipes and application properties in a XML file. The XML file has .flu as the file extension. A .flu file encloses the entire fluency application into <FluencyApplication> </FluencyApplication>. <FluencyApplication> has child element called "Properties", these are actually Application Properties.
An Example of a .flu file will make it more clear:
<FluencyApplication> <Properties id="Basic Fluency Editor" version="0.1.6" size="400.400" title="Mintu" author="Saurabh Ajmera"/> ? <Widget id="org.knownspace.fluency.shared.widget.categories.visual.SimpleButton"> <Property name="Transparency" type="java.lang.Double"> 2.0 </Property> <Property name="Size" type="java.awt.Dimension"> 63,23 </Property> <Property name="Enabled" type="java.lang.Boolean"> 1 </Property> <Property name="Location" type="java.awt.Point"> 84,198 </Property> <Property name="Text" type="java.lang.String"> Empty </Property> <Property name="Z Level" type="java.lang.Integer"> 0 </Property> <Property name="Visibility" type="java.lang.Boolean"> 1 </Property> <Property name="Foreground Color" type="java.awt.Color"> 0,0,0 </Property> </Widget> ? <Widget id="org.knownspace.fluency.shared.widget.categories.visual.SimpleCheckbox"> <Property name="Transparency" type="java.lang.Double"> 2.0 </Property> <Property name="Size" type="java.awt.Dimension"> 55,23 </Property> <Property name="Enabled" type="java.lang.Boolean"> 1 </Property> <Property name="Location" type="java.awt.Point"> 222,218 </Property> <Property name="Text" type="java.lang.String"> Empty </Property> <Property name="Z Level" type="java.lang.Integer"> 0 </Property> <Property name="Visibility" type="java.lang.Boolean"> 1 </Property> <Property name="Foreground Color" type="java.awt.Color"> 0,0,0 </Property> </Widget> <Pipe out="1:Input:clicked:org.knownspace.fluency.shared.types.Empty" in="2:Input:click:org.knownspace.fluency.shared.types.Empty" path="0"/> </FluencyApplication>
The code above shows a sample .flu file. In the above code, notice the following line:
<Properties id="Basic Fluency Editor" version="0.1.6" size="400.400" title="Mintu" author="Saurabh Ajmera"/>
This line is where the Application Properties are saved. The "title" attribute is the title of the fluency application and "author" attribute saves the author of the fluency application.