MSM-Workstation
Create the First Set of Windows

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Create the second window

The main elements to select a person from a database are now almost established. It is now time to define a window to display the information about the person. Since the demonstration database doesn't contain many data fields, the display window will remain fairly simple. Still, a number of general issues will be covered while creating the display window.

Since there is already a mounted database, it is now easy to define a new window using the "New" option from the "File" menu.

This window will be called "SecondWindow" and its first component will be a "Label":

The text for this label will be defined at run-time; the value that will be inserted at that time is going to be the name of the person in question. For the time being, the simple note "Name" will be entered here, so that it is visible that the label is there. Similar components are added as place holders for the description of the person and information about a picture of the person

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