After a half-day introductory presentation on VisualAge the attendees will follow the instructor, step-by-step, through the process of implementing an administrative system for a video club. The focus of the course is on the visual programming paradigm and how to build applications using composition of parts.
The topics that will be covered in depth are:
- GUI Composition Toolset
- Composition Editor
- Script Editor
- Public Interface Editor
- Source Code Development Toolset
- Code Browsers/Editors
- Workspaces
- Smalltalk Debugger and break-points
- Smalltalk Inspectors
- Effective Visual Programming Paradigm in VisualAge
- Connections to establish bindings between model objects and widgets
- Connections to establish code hooks
- Connections between visual components
- Promoting features for components reuse
- Layout constraints
- Type Converters
- Programming a more dynamic GUI
- Objected driven Hiearchical lists and Containers
- Notebooks
- Dynamic Form swapping based on selected objects
- Drag & Drop
- Envy History
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