User's Guide
This book provides numerous examples to help you create different types
of applications, fine tune them, and package them. For immediate
hands-on use of VisualAge, read the first the part of this book and then try
some of the examples provided:
- Fun with script connections
- Retrieves and displays ASCII files in multiline edit fields using
scripts. See Using the Script Editor.
- Customer information
- Builds upon InvestmentApp, introduced in VisualAge
Smalltalk Getting Started, by placing parts onto reusable forms and
adding notebooks. See Adding Notebooks.
- Road race
- Displays times and entry numbers for entrants in a road race. Creating reusable parts shows how to make reusable parts and use the Public
Interface Editor to define attributes, events, and actions. Using nonvisual parts shows how to extend the Road Race example using scripts, an
ordered collection, an object factory, variables, and a view wrapper.
And Extending the parts palette covers how to make resource DLLs for the example and add the
example to the parts palette.
- Enter an address
- Uses a Form Checker part and scripts to validate information entered into
text fields. See Validating user input. Adding messages to your application shows how to define messages for the
application. National language support explains how to translate text displayed in its user
interface and messages.
- Black Jack
- Lets you play cards and look like you're working. Adding list parts describes how to design the card game's basic parts and
use lists. Adding portable container parts describes how to change text in the lists to icons.
And Adding drag and drop support lets you drag and drop the icons.
- Shape parts
- Allows you to add circle, rectangle, and triangle shapes to an application
simply by dropping the parts you build onto a window or form. See Building primitive visual parts.
- ATM example
- Retrieves customer records using the C External Function or COBOL External
Function parts. See Accessing external functions.
- Shopping list
- Uses Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) with Smalltalk objects to share
information between client and server windows. See Dynamic Data Exchange.
- Customer records
- Uses OLE Client parts to access and display files through Windows server
applications. See Using OLE Support.
- Progress bar
- Wrappers an OCX control for a progress bar and adds the wrapped control to
a VisualAge window. See Adding OLE controls to your VisualAge application.
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