User's Guide


Starting your product

This guide assumes that you have installed VisualAge. (If not, refer to the information on installation in VisualAge Smalltalk Getting Started.) To start your system, open the product folder added to your workstation during installation.

Then, double-click on the product icon, VisualAge icon

UNIX
For UNIX environments, enter abt at a command line.

After you start your product, you will see a picture on the screen while the system loads. After the system loads, the System Transcript window opens. For simplicity, this guide will refer to the System Transcript window as the Transcript. The Transcript looks like this:
System Transcript window

The Transcript must remain open for the development environment to operate (but you can minimize it). When you close the Transcript, the system shuts down.

The VisualAge Organizer and QuickStart windows also open.

Depending on how your system is set up, additional windows might open immediately after the Transcript. One window lists all users of your team's library. Search this list for your name, ID, or whatever designation your library administrator gave you. Select your designation; then select OK.
Selecting a user

After you select a designation and select OK, the system makes you "owner" or "manager" of any components you create under that designation.

Another window prompts you for your network password. If your library restricts access to authorized users, then this window opens whenever you start the product. Enter your password; then select OK.
Network password

If your name does not appear in the list of users or if you do not know your network password, contact your library administrator. If you are the library administrator, see Giving users access to libraries for more information.

If a window opens asking whether you want to connect to the library, select Yes. This recaches the system's pointers. After you save the image, you will not have to recache pointers again.


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