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Use the following checklist to ensure that your plug-in is consistent with the rest of the interface and any other plug-ins built by developers following this guide. Action bar buttons have a corresponding menu item on the Actions menu. Interface text adheres to capitalization guidelines. ... |
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Both headline-style capitalization and sentence-style are used, depending on the item. For the most part, these guidelines also agree with the IBM Web Interface Style Guidelines, so that if you are designing for both the Web and rich client, consider using the same properties file. Headline-style ... |
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In Lotus Notes 8, the preferences for individual templates cannot yet be contributed to the consolidated preferences tree. If you provide preferences, put a Preferences… menu item in the Actions menu. If you feel that it is necessary, you can also put a Preferences… action bar button in the ... |
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The purpose of the action bar is to provide quick access to commonly used actions/commands. Commands on the action bar must be repeats of items on the Menu bar (or something in a dialog box that you get to from a menu item). Views and documents (forms) can have an action bar if the designer thinks ... |
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Provide context menus on objects. IBM also recommends that you also include a menu item in a menu on the menu bar for every context menu that you create. Lotus Notes core provides a standard set of context menu items for different interface objects, such as a view or a document). IBM recommends ... |
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Domino Designer lets developers add menu items to the Create and Actions menus. Here are some guidelines to follow: Any item (command) in the action bar should also be in the Actions menu, preferably in the same order. The Actions menu can be a superset of the items on the action bar (that is, the ... |
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The Lotus Notes 8 client is a rich client with all the elements you’d expect of a rich client, such as a menu bar and status bar (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Elements of the Lotus Notes 8 Client |