OpenROAD Workbench lets you create new frames based on predefined templates. Templates enable you to provide consistency in appearance and behavior among the frames you create. You may also specify that your new frame is to be used only during development, as a setup frame or as a test frame. For more information about FrameTemplates and development frames, see Use a Frame Style with Other Frames, and Apply a Setup Frame.

This chapter describes how to create simple, basic frames using the empty_frame, dialog_box, and menu frame templates.

Later, you will learn how to use more complex frame templates that are paired with assistants in order to create automatically generated frames. You will also learn how to create ghost frames.

This chapter describes in detail how to use the Frame Editor, the primary editor for user frames and probably the most important visual editor in the Workbench development environment.