Create A Structure

If you skipped the instructions for creating a simple app in Getting Started, this section briefly describes how to create a new structure.

A structure defines the combination of widgets in each layer of an MT Showcase app. There are four layers: Background; Main; Menu; and Overlay. For descriptions of these layers, see Concepts.

To create a structure, follow these steps:

  1. Click Structures in the left-hand pane.

  2. Click My First Structure. The Editing a structure screen appears.

  3. Now edit the Overlay, Menu, Main, and Background layers:

    • Overlay layer: This is the topmost layer in an MT Showcase app. Widgets in this layer operate above any screen content in the main layer. Overlay widgets include the Champagne and Ripple special effects widget and the Input Visualizer widget. Instructions for adding the Input Visualizer are provided in the overlay widgets section. To add items to the overlay layer, follow and adapt these instructions as required.

    • Menu layer: This layer is where you define a finger menu or rotating menu. To open a menu, users tap and hold any area of empty screen. Finger menus are described in Finger Menus.

    • Main layer: This layer includes the content widgets that users see when they use the app. It can include any combination of image, video, browser and PDF widgets. It can also include other widgets such as animated cloud widgets, content hotspots, teasers, and detectors for personal markers.

      • To add a teaser menu, see the teasers section.

      • To add a cloud, see the cloud widgets section.

      • To add a content hotspot, see the hotspots section.

      • To add a web browser to the main layer, see step 3 of Getting Started.

      To add other items to the main layer, follow and adapt the above instructions, as required.

    • Background layer: The background layer defines the screen background. It can include an animated background, interactive special effects, and images and movies in fixed positions on the screen. It can also include the annotation widget. Instructions for adding Awesome to the background layer are provided in step 2 of Getting Started. To add alternative items to the background layer, follow and adapt these instructions as required.