Getting Started


Table of Contents

  • Notices
  • Trademarks
  • About this book
  • What this book includes
  • Sample applications in this book
  • Who this book is for
  • About this product
  • Conventions used in this book
  • Tell us what you think
  • What's new in this version?

  • Your first look at VisualAge

  • The basics
  • What is VisualAge?
  • Key concepts
  • Parts
  • Properties views
  • Connections
  • Scripts
  • IBM Smalltalk
  • The VisualAge visual tools
  • Working with the Composition Editor
  • Parts palette
  • Tool bar
  • Free-form surface
  • Visual tool symbols
  • Building your first VisualAge application
  • Starting up
  • Development image ownership
  • Connecting to the development manager library
  • Now that you are up and running
  • Using the Quick Start window
  • Creating an application using the VisualAge Smalltalk Quick Start window
  • Using the full menu set
  • Using the Composition Editor
  • Working with parts
  • Building the To-do List application
  • Changing the title bar text of a Window part
  • Adding Text and Label parts
  • Adding a List part
  • Adding Push Button parts
  • Sizing and aligning visual parts
  • Sizing, aligning, and distributing parts
  • Correcting mistakes
  • Working with nonvisual parts
  • Adding an Ordered Collection part
  • Connecting parts
  • Attribute-to-attribute connections
  • Event-to-action connections
  • Saving and testing the To-do List application
  • Saving your visual part and application image
  • Testing the application
  • Making the To-do List an executable application
  • Making your application executable
  • Running the To-do List application

  • Looking further into VisualAge

  • Building on the basics
  • VisualAge user interface parts
  • Manipulating parts
  • Selecting parts
  • Selecting several parts
  • Deselecting parts
  • Moving parts
  • Copying parts
  • Copying parts using the clipboard
  • Deleting parts
  • Resizing, aligning, and positioning parts
  • Resizing parts
  • Aligning parts
  • Matching the width of another part
  • Distributing parts evenly
  • Positioning parts within a grid
  • Changing part properties
  • Open the Properties window for a part
  • Changing part colors and fonts
  • Change the color of a part
  • Change the font of a part
  • Portability of colors and fonts
  • Connecting parts
  • Attribute-to-attribute connections
  • Event-to-action connections
  • Event-to-script connections
  • Attribute-from-script connections
  • Parameter-from-attribute
  • Parameter-from-action
  • Parameter-from-script
  • Changing the Properties of connections
  • Connection parameters
  • Manipulating connections
  • Building the Investment application
  • Creating the Investment application using the VisualAge Organizer
  • Creating the Investment application visual parts
  • Creating the Investment application main window
  • Changing part properties
  • Validating and formatting data
  • Making a text part read-only
  • Checking a Toggle Button by default
  • Specifying a default Push Button part
  • Setting a Push Button part to disabled
  • Sizing parts automatically
  • Changing part names
  • Making the connections for the Investment application
  • Making the attribute-to-attribute connections
  • Making the event-to-action connection
  • Saving and testing the Investment application
  • Adding Window and Form parts to the Investment application
  • Creating a reusable part
  • Creating application secondary windows
  • Adding a reusable part and connecting to it
  • Working with View Wrapper parts
  • Connecting to a View Wrapper
  • Saving and testing your work
  • Setting tab order in the Investment application
  • Setting the Investment application main window tabbing order
  • Setting the SecurityFormView part's tabbing order
  • Setting the secondary windows' tabbing orders
  • Adding menus to the Investment application
  • Adding menu parts
  • Adding menu choices
  • Saving, testing, and making the Investment application executable
  • Creating the application executable
  • Results of packaging the application
  • Running the application

  • Looking ahead

  • What's next?
  • Start with the VisualAge Smalltalk User's Guide
  • Consult the VisualAge Smalltalk Parts Reference
  • Explore the help facilities
  • Index

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