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User interface design

Updated: 8 Sep 2023

Tekla Open API contains WPF and Windows Forms support to help developers to design the user interface for .NET applications and plugins.

The user interface can also be defined using the same definition language as custom components and system components: input file format (INP).

User interface checklist

Check the following guides before starting implementing user interface to your app:

  1. Keep logic and user interface separate
  2. Keep tool always above Tekla Strucures
  3. Hide tool from Windows taskbar
  4. Start tool from Tekla Structures user interface

Creating user interface

The following guidelines helps you to create user interface elements in Tekla Structures. 

  1. Tekla Open API UI design with WPF
  2. Model plug-in dialog design with Windows Forms
  3. Drawing plug-in dialog design with Windows Forms
  4. Plug-in dialog design with INP
  5. User interface controls
  6. Bound values of controls to attributes
  7. ApplicationFormBase
  8. Add a thumbnail image to your plug-in
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