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Building a Custom Portable Program

User’s Guide

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3. Create all the nodes shown in

Figure 84 on page 114

, using commands

on the

Create

menu or icons on the

Toolbar

. Each node's type is indi-

cated by the first line of text in the node. Rename each node accord-
ing to the second line of text. Link the nodes together as shown.

The Display: Enter Item Node

You need to set up this node to display “Enter Item:” on the first line of the
portable’s screen and have the fourth line of the screen tell the user to press

to return to the Main Menu. Complete the following steps to set up the

node:

1. Double-click the

Display: Enter Item

node to open the node’s dialog

box (refer to

Figure 85 on page 115

).

2. Type

Enter Item: on the first line of the text entry area.

3. Use the keyboard navigation keys to move to the fourth line and enter

Menu.

4. Select

OK

to save your settings.

Figure 85. The Display: Enter Item

The Input: Item Node

Complete the following steps to set up this node:

1. Double-click the

Input: Item

node to display its dialog box (refer to

Figure 86 on page 116

).

If you click twice on the

Start

or

Exit

node, this frame will move to the background

window. Clicking on any visible part of the

Collect Data

frame will bring it to the fore-

ground.

When Linking the

Verify: Input

node, create the Link to the

Output: Error Beep

node first. Then create the Link to the

Copy: To File

node. This will place the correct

Link in the

Next

node options of the

Verify: Input

node.

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