• Getting Started
• Preface
• Notices
  • Trademarks
• About this book
  • Who this book is for
  • What's new?
    • VAST Platform 2021 (version 10.0.0)
  • Conventions used in this book
  • Tell us what you think
• Overview
• What is VAST Platform?
  • Expressive written code
  • Powerful visual programming cabability
• Starting up
  • Environments
  • Creating a Development Environment
  • Launching a Development Environment
    • Development image ownership and Security
    • Connecting to the development manager library
    • In the image
• Saving your work
• A guided tour: Creating your first Smalltalk application
  • Creating the application STCalculatorApp
  • Creating the class STCalculator
  • Defining the class
  • Adding the method open
    • Testing STCalculator
    • Finishing the open method
  • Finishing the user interface
    • Fixing errors
    • Browsing CwRowColumn
  • Adding functions
    • The Classes Browser
    • Adding the remaining methods
  • Debugging the calculator
    • Introducing the Debugger
      • Using the Debugger
  • Tidying up the Calculator application
    • Extending another class
    • Categorizing methods
    • Public and private methods
    • Checking prerequisites
    • One last change
  • Summing up
• The Power of Smalltalk
  • Software components
    • Classes
      • Defined classes
      • Extended classes
      • Visible classes
      • Public classes and private classes
    • Methods
      • Viewing methods
      • Method categories
    • Applications
      • Applications group classes
      • Applications relate to other applications
    • Subapplications
    • Configuration maps
  • Team Concepts
• Smalltalk Development Tools
  • Using a Transcript or Workspace window
    • Text editing
    • Evaluating Smalltalk expressions
  • The Application Manager
  • The Applications Browser
    • Method visibility
  • The Classes Browser
  • The Class Browser
  • The Application Browser
  • The Debugger
• Constructing your first visual application
  • Creating a Visual Part
    • Creating an application using the Quick Start window
    • Using the full menu set
  • Editing the Visual Part
  • Building the To-do List User Interface
    • 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
      • Making the attribute-to-attribute connection
    • Event-to-action connections
      • Making the 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
      • Versioning and releasing your application and its parts
      • Creating an executable application
  • Running the To-do List application
• The Visual Programming Paradigm
  • Key concepts
    • Parts
    • Properties views
    • Connections
    • Scripts
    • Smalltalk Code
• The Visual Development Tools
  • Organizer
    • Adding part classes to your application
  • Composition Editor: an Introduction
    • Parts palette
    • Tool bar
      • General tools
      • Size and position Tools
      • Connection tools
      • Basic toolbar
    • Free-form surface
    • Visual tool symbols
    • Status Bar
    • Working with Parts
      • Adding parts
      • Changing the labels of parts using direct editing
      • Changing the settings of parts
        • Using Properties or Settings windows
        • Properties windows
        • Settings windows
      • Tearing off an attribute from a part
        • Tearing off an attribute
      • Connecting parts
        • Making connections
      • Dragging parts
      • Selecting multiple parts
      • Displaying part pop-up menus
  • Script Editor
  • Public Interface Editor
  • Composition Editor: going deeper
    • VAST user interface parts
      • Buttons category
      • Data Entry category
      • Lists category
      • Menus category
      • Canvas category
      • Win32 Common Controls
      • Prompters category
    • 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
        • Attributes as parameters
        • Constants as parameters
      • Manipulating connections
        • Selecting and deselecting connections
        • Deleting connections
        • Reordering connections
        • Showing, hiding and browsing connections
        • Arranging connections
        • Changing connection end-points
• Constructing your second visual application
  • Creating the Investment application using the Organizer
  • Creating the Investment application visual parts
  • Creating the Investment application main window
  • Changing part properties
    • Validating and formatting data
      • Using the Formatted Text part's Social Security data type
      • Using the Formatted Text part's Monetary data type
      • Add items to the Drop-Down List part
    • 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
    • Making the attribute-to-attribute connections
    • Making the event-to-action connection
  • Saving and testing
  • Adding Window and Form parts
    • Creating a reusable part
      • Creating a reusable Form part
      • Create the user interface for the reusable part
    • Creating application secondary windows
      • Creating the BuySecurityView window
      • Making a copy of the BuySecurityView window
      • Creating the SellSecurityView window
    • Adding a reusable part and connecting to it
      • Adding a reusable part
      • Making the event-to-action connections
    • Working with View Wrapper parts
      • Adding windows as View wrappers
    • Connecting to a View Wrapper
    • Saving and testing your work
  • Setting tab order
    • Main window
    • SecurityFormView
    • Secondary windows
  • Adding menus
    • Adding menu parts
      • Menu Bars
      • Pop-up Menu parts
      • Cascade Menus
      • Creating a menu bar
    • Adding menu choices
      • Add a menu choice
      • Adding a cascade menu
      • Menu part distinctions
  • Review your work
  • Creating the application executable
  • Results of packaging the application
  • Running the application
• Looking ahead
  • What's next?
    • Start with the Smalltalk User Guide
    • Start with the Visual Programming User Guide
    • Consult the Visual Parts Reference
    • Learn about the development environment
    • Explore the help facilities
• Index

Getting Started

Index