Device IDE Tour

When you start NS Basic/CE, you get the standard Edit Screen. Rather than start coding right away, we'll first go to the Visual Designer and lay out our objects.

From the Tools Menu, select Visual Designer.

The Visual Designer allows you to define several forms for your application. Each form is a collection of screen objects that will display at the same time. You'll be able to hide and show forms under the control of your code. (It's actually more flexible than that: it's possible to selectively hide and show objects within a form).

Since our application will have just a single form, we'll take the default name "Form1"

Tap OK.

Now we're shown a layout of the form. Since we haven't added any objects, it still shows as blank.

Let's add some objects...