Workspace
The Canvas workspace is the saved window layout containing your screen creation environment. Canvas provides a variety of component panes you can arrange as desired to make a customized workspace that suits your workflow and functional needs. This arrangement is saved in your workspace settings file (canvas.workspace) when you exit the application. Alternatively, it can be reset if necessary, by exiting the application and then deleting the workspace settings file.
The following panes are available to make up your workspace:
- Screen pane — Provides an environment for developing user interaction screens, including both design and scripting views:
- Design view — Provides a grid environment to create screens, where you can graphically place and customize the appearance of each user element comprising the screen
- Script view — Contains an environment to create or edit screen content in a chosen script language (C# or VB.NET), where you can write script, add and remove references, and introduce custom elements to design customized screens
- Controls view — Contains a list of all Canvas controls on your screen or object grouped by Type and displaying a subset of shared properties. You can edit several of these properties on this view and the changes will be reflected in the Properties pane.
- Toolbox pane — Displays a toolbox of available controls and objects that can be placed on your screen
- Properties pane — Lists the associated property details that can be configured for the selected screen or object
- Events pane — Lists the associated events that can be called for the selected screen object
- Layers pane — Lists all configured layers for the screen or object that is currently selected in the screen pane
- Output pane — Shows any errors with your script results
- Log Viewer pane — Shows the contents of the Canvas log file
See Customizing the Workspace for more information about customizing the Canvas panes.
See Reset Your Workspace for information about deleting the workspace settings file.
