In the Common Widgets subsystem, to cause a widget to be displayed. When a widget is realized, it assumes its initial geometry and creates its original visual appearance.

The object that receives a message. Contrast with sender.

An object that contains information about the format, structure, and types of the data it contains.

Classes that provide a flexible, open architecture for converting Smalltalk objects to and from data types of other languages.

In the Smalltalk virtual machine, a value stored by OSObject instances that indicates what kind of processing should be done to the OSObjects. OSObjects provide a mechanism for describing and accessing arbitrary memory structures.

A system operation on a component that changes its containing component's configuration. Releasing a component adds its released edition or version to the configuration for its containing component. When a containing component is loaded into an image, the released editions or versions of the components it contains are also loaded.

A visual object that conforms to a specified rendering protocol and can display (render) itself.

An organized, shared body of information that can support business and data-processing activities.

In VA Smalltalk, the multiuser library that stores components such as applications, classes, and methods created by application developers. It stores source code, object code, and persistent objects.

A type of push button that can appear on an HTML form. A reset button restores all input fields to their default states.

In the Common Widgets subsystem, a named state that defines the behavior and appearance of a widget.

In the Common Widgets subsystem, a method that provides access to a widget's resources.

An expression whose value is returned as the result of a method, for example ^ self.

An object or data type that a receiver object passes to a sender object in response to a message.