User's Guide


Packaging your VisualAge application

This chapter shows you how to package your VisualAge application into a stand-alone executable.

All the work you do using VisualAge is stored within a VisualAge application. The application contains information describing visual and nonvisual parts, connections, prerequisite applications, and any user-defined scripts. The application and its prerequisites are, in turn, contained in the VisualAge development image.

To package your application, you use the Make Executable or Packaged Images options available in the VisualAge Organizer, or the packaging options available in the Smalltalk browsers. In the windows displayed, you select the application you want packaged and the view you want opened at startup. VisualAge then extracts your application-specific information from the development image and generates a "shrink-wrapped" runtime image, the stand-alone executable.

This chapter briefly covers how to package VisualAge applications using the Make Executable option. For detailed information on packaging using the other options, refer to the IBM Smalltalk User's Guide.


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