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Building User Interfaces with VisualAge
 

Course Description
This course provides a solid working knowledge of IBM VisualAges user interface development and configuration management features.  Participants design and create visual and non-visual user interface parts with VisualAge editors and tools.  Participants use ENVY, VisualAges built-in configuration management system, to organize and distribute their work. The course format is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on computer time.  This class is offered in both Smalltalk or Java versions.

Audience
Developers who will be creating screens, windows, and other user interface views and components

Prerequisites
Familiarity with personal computers and basic mouse skills
Exposure to basic windowing systems (Windows 95, 98 or NT)
Knowledge of fundamental user interface principles helpful
 

VisualAge, part I

ENVY, part I

•         Introduction to VisualAge

•         VisualAge terms

•         Navigating in VisualAge

•         Building visual parts

•         Kinds of connections

•         The Composition Editor

•         Non-visual parts

•         Tearing-off attributes

•         Quick forms

•         View wrappers

•         Edges and attachments

•         Introduction to configuration management

•         ENVY terms

•         Applications and extensions

•         The edition-version cycle

•         ENVY roles

VisualAge, part II

ENVY, part II

• Hover help
• Menu Parts
• Changing fonts and colors
• Declaring attributes and actions
• Composite parts
• Object factory and Producer parts

•         ENVY confguration maps

•         Sub-applications

•         Access sets

•         ENVY ownership

•         ENVY organizational strategy