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XUI Zone - screenshots - Engineering
XConfigurator is a tool built using XUI that allows complex engineering equipment to be selected via a rich user interface. The screenshots below show three steps in the selection process. Several other steps are included in the complete application to provide details product information and integration with back end ordering systems.
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The user interface for the configurator is built with Java and AWT so that it can run on a range of JVMs including Internet Explorer's built-in JVM, NSI CreMe and Java WebStart.
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The configurator includes detailed calculations. Using the XUI data model makes for a very clean yet simple separation of UI and calculation (model) components. Equally the model makes it very easy to update the UI with calculated values.
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The configurator uses a combination of Java and XML to generate the user interface (although it could all be assembled from XML). The XML is of particular use in situations like that shown above where details of a individual component are being shown. The system models thousands of components/components and using XML makes it easy adapt the popup screens to suit individual/specialized components or situtaions.
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