This book uses several conventions that you might not have seen in other product manuals.
Tips and environment-specific information are flagged with icons:
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These highlighting conventions are used in the text:
Highlight style | Used for | Example |
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Boldface | New terms the first time they are used | VisualAge uses construction from parts to develop software by assembling and connecting reusable components called parts. |
Items you can select, such as push buttons and menu choices | Select Add Part from the Options pull-down. Type the part's class and select OK. | |
Italics | Special emphasis | Do not save the image. |
Titles of publications | Refer to the VisualAge Smalltalk User's Guide | |
Text that the product displays | The status area displays Category: Data Entry. | |
VisualAge programming objects, such as attributes, actions, events, composite parts, and script names | Connect the window's aboutToOpenWidget event to the initializeWhereClause script. | |
Monospace font | VisualAge scripts and other examples of Smalltalk code |
doSomething | aNumber aString | aNumber := 5 * 10. aString := 'abc'. |
Text you can enter | For the customer name, type John Doe |