In the second part of this book, you will do the following:
In Building on the basics, you dig deeper into the concepts of visually constructing
user interfaces and building applications. You'll need to learn
some more detailed visual construction topics, such as:
Working with parts
Changing their properties
Changing their colors and fonts
Tearing off attributes from the parts
Working with connections
Changing their properties
Providing parameters to connections
Manipulating connections
Correcting mistakes using Undo/Redo
In Building the Investment application, you'll create a more complex VisualAge application, an
Investment application that involves more than one window and many more
connections.
By building the Investment application, you'll learn about the
following tasks:
Creating VisualAge applications, visual parts, and user interfaces