System Menu
After clicking the top left icon 
, System Menu will pop up:
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New Design: Allowing users to set a new design from scratch without following our product template. This function allows users to start a HMI GUI design without the underlying hardware. Please keep in mind that the HMI projects developed by using this option cannot be downloaded to any of our products.
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New Design from Template: Allowing users to start a new design by selecting one of our product templates.
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Open: Opening a stored HMI design. Once clicked, an pop-up dialog window will appear allowing users to choose a design file to open. All the ADE designs bear the same file extension name: .epgz. In this pop-up dialog window, only those files with this extension name will be seen.
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Save: Saving HMI designs. If a new design has not been given a name, a file saving dialog window pops up allowing users to specify the file name.
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Save As…: Saving HMI design to a different file. A dialog window appears allowing users to specify or select the target file name.
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Export…: Exporting HMI design. Users can export their HMI design to IOT’s products for completing an HMI development. ADE can export the HMI design to a PDF document or a HTML document with hyperlinks. Please refer to Export
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Print…: Printing HMI design. Please refer Export
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Close: Closing HMI design.
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Recent Designs: Listing the recently opened HMI designs for users to quickly select and open a previous HMI design.
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Settings…: Setting up ADE’s system parameters. Please refer Settings
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Select Language: Selecting the language used in ADE. Currently users can select English, 繁體中文, or 日文.
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Tools: Managing widget libraries and fonts. Please refer Tools
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About…: Displaying version, copyright information and the release note.
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Exit: Exiting and closing ADE program.