Smalltalk Development Tools

Getting Started : Smalltalk Development Tools

VA Smalltalk provides a set of tools that assist you in browsing and editing the software components in your image.

•Workspace enables you to enter and work with text, including Smalltalk code.

•Transcript has the capabilities of the Workspace and also enables you to monitor changes to the development image.

•Classes Browser enables you to look at all of the classes in your image.

•Class Browser enables you to look at a specific class in your image.

•Class Hierarchy Browser enables you to look at the hierarchy of a specific of the class in your image.

•Application Browser enables you to look at a specific application in your image.

•Applications Browser enables you to look at all of the applications in your image.

•Application Manager coordinates the activities of the application's developers and ensures that the configuration information for the application is correct.

•Debugger enables you to look at live objects midway in the execution path.

This book describes the basic use of these tools in creating a simple example application. For more in-depth information on these tools, see Smalltalk User Guide.

VA Smalltalk also has an available add-on product which allows you to construct user interfaces from common widgets in a WSIWYG editor. For more information, see WindowBuilder Pro for Smalltalk.

Last modified date: 07/23/2020