Visually editing an MFS device format

The Design canvas, Palette view, Outline view, and Properties view together provide all the tools that are needed to edit the macros and fields in an MFS device format visually.

The Design canvas provides the editing space for fields to be graphically represented. Fields can be added to the active physical page displayed in the Design canvas by drag-and-drop or select-and-click from the Palette view. The Outline view allows high-level navigation through the layers of the MFS hierarchy, while the Properties view provides an editable form where the properties of each MFS macro can be modified and updated. The Source page generates and modifies source automatically for each change that is performed in these different views.