Defining actions

The GUI framework provides several ways of invoking context functions, programs, dialogs and GUI applications via button click, menu item selection or key sequences, but also via timer events or mouse clicks. The link between cause and action is defined in event actions and event action controls.

Actions that may be called are of different types. Details about how to design actions of different types are described in the topic Action design.

Event actions and event action controls are usually associated with visible GUI elements as menu items in application and context menus, push buttons in windows or tool bar buttons in window and control tool bars. Details about defining event actions are described in Event action schema.

Here, some common ways are described for providing and using global action resources.