
Building a Custom Portable Program
Figure 79. Flow Chart showing Jointed Links
Creating the Main Menu Nodes
After defining program’s frames, you must specify the nodes for each frame.
To view the a frames’ nodes,
Operation nodes involve more detailed information than frames and are divided into nine node types, with a different dialog box associated with each node. For example, a Display node specifies text to display on the portable’s screen; that text is entered into a dialog box attached to the node.
In this section, you will set up the nodes for the Main Menu frame. This is a simple frame, creating a path to either of the other two frames. You will create a Menu node that advances to the Collect Data frame if the user presses <F3> and to the Upload Data frame if the user presses <F4>.
Set up the nodes for the Main Menu frame by completing the following steps:
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