Tersus: Complete App Tutorial [version 2.1.31 or higher]

Complete App Tutorial [version 2.1.31 or higher]Date: Aug 12, 2014Guestbook AppIn this tutorial we'll show how to easily create a simple iPhone/Android application that allows you to save and display the details and pictures of people you meet.Development StagesThe tutorial is comprised of 5 stages, each containing a detailed explanation and screenshots:

Stage 1 - Creating the application

Stage 2 - Opening a form to record visitor details

Stage 3 - Taking a picture

Stage 4 - Saving visitor details and picture

Stage 5 - Displaying the saved data (guestbook)

Stage 1 - Creating the application

Launch the Tersus Studio, version 2.1.31 or higher (on Windows - Tersus Visual Programming Platform; on Mac - Tersus).

If this is the first time you are using the studio, you will see a Welcome screen, which you should close before you continue.

Create a new Tersus application "Guestbook":

Select File -> New -> Tersus Project
Project name: Guestbook
Template: New Mobile Application
Click Finish (a new Tersus project is created, and you see the top level diagram of the application, which contains three screens (<Mobile View>, <Tablet View> and <Desktop View>).
We are currently interested only in the mobile view, so delete <Tablet View> and <Desktop View>.

On the right side of the Studio you can see the Palette, which contains the building blocks we will shortly use to build our application. On the left side you see the Repository, which contains all the application components.

Double click <Mobile View> to zoom into it.

The model already contains a single default page called Page 1 (our application will be a simple one, consisting of a single page, but it is also possible to create applications with multiple pages and allow the user to navigate between them).

Rename the page: Right click Page 1, select Rename, type Visitors (instead of Page 1), and press Finish.

Similarly, rename the main page button: Zoom (double click) into Visitors, then zoom into Header, and rename Button to New. Delete the other button (Prev).

Our application doesn't contain much yet, but we can already run it. Save the application and press the launch button in the upper toolbar (

). The application will start within your browser:

You can change the URL from http://localhost:8080/Guestbook/ to http://localhost:8080/Guestbook/mobile.html in order to display the app in a simulated iPhone screen:

Download model: Stage 1Stage 2 - Opening a form to record visitor details See Also:

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