Making a New Project Based on an Existing One

TCPmaker : Visual Tour Making a New Project Based on an Existing One

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1 Starting from a copy of a project

2 Our plan

3 Step 1: Review appearance of existing layout

4 Appearance changes we want

5 Step 2 - Copy files to clean new directory

6 Copy the files

7 Step 3 - Load new project file into TCPmaker Pro

8 Open the project file

9 This will load the project file, and advance to the "Select compilers" page of the TCPmaker wizard.

10 Change description and Device Class Name

11 Select compilers

12 Click "Design Your Web Page..." to enter the Visual Page Designer

13 Edit our layout in the Visual Page Designer

14 Setting up the Master Template

15 Determining background colors for the Master Template

16 Bringing up the Master Template

17 Setting background colors of the Master Template

18 Move controls and background elements to the Master Template

19 Move item to template

20 Verify that the item has moved to the Master Template

21 Caution: Z-Order is important

22 Continue moving background elements and labels to Master Template

23 When we're done with the index page

24 Our Master Template at this point

25 The index page with Master Template applied

26 Add some navigation buttons to our new Master Template

27 Add a new page that uses our Master Template

28 Save and test our layout

29 Using Beyond Compare 3 to copy "real I/O" code to our new project

30 Select the Left Directory for Compare

31 Compare to "TCPmaker"

32 Beyond Compare 3's side by side comparison of directory trees

33 Comparing two files side by side

34 Comparing two MORE files side by side

35 Multiple comparisons available at once

36 Summary

37 Final comments about Beyond Compare 3