Chapter 10
UI with Boxes and Pages
A well-designed user interface that takes full advantage of the screen is essential for giving a professional look and feel to a program. The page and boxed constructs in TouchDevelop provide a powerful means of laying out information on the screen. A unique feature to assist script developers is that a running script can be suspended while the format of information currently displayed on the screen is changed, and then the script’s execution can be resumed.
| 10.1 Page Overview |
| 10.2 Box Overview |
| 10.3 Examples of Boxes and Pages |
| 10.4 Working with Pages |
| 10.5 Live Editing of the User Interface |
| 10.6 API Support for Boxes and Pages |
10.1 Page Overview
A page is invoked in a similar manner to an ...
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