Newlook Smartclient

Newlook Smartclient is one of the deployment options available to developers.

It provides end-users with a rich graphical interface and support for features such as emulation mode, type-ahead and keyboard buffering. Newlook Smartclient is best suited to typical business end-users who may benefit from personalized settings, advanced UI controls, desktop integration, web services consumption and database access.

It can be deployed as a standalone executable (SmartClient) or running embedded within custom HTML (SmartFrame).

Smartclient Interface

Main Menu

Provides access to file actions, editing tools and additional user tools. Refer to Smartclient menu options for further details.

Toolbar

Provides access to the following commonly used menu items: Connections, Edit tools, Emulator view and Help.

Main Body

The main body of Newlook Smartclient displays the current application screen, as defined by your specified solution. Each screen is generated from two sources: your host application and your Newlook GUI solution.

Function Keys

A screen's function keys are displayed as clickable buttons along the bottom of the main screen area.

Status Bar

The status bar of Smartclient displays screen properties, error messages, status information and access to error message help and host message queues.