Getting Started


Creating an ENVY application

When you start VisualAge Generator, two windows will be displayed on your desktop: the System Transcript window and the VisualAge Organizer window. The System Transcript window has numerous functions, but for this tutorial, you will only need to look at it for system information. You'll start building your sample application system in the VisualAge Organizer window, shown in Figure 27.

Figure 27. VisualAge Organizer Window

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VisualAge Generator stores VAGen parts in ENVY applications. Before you build a part, you must create a new application or load an edition of an application to contain the parts you build.

Note:For a description of the 14 types of VisualAge Generator parts, see "Part types". For more information about working with applications, see "VisualAge Smalltalk Repository management" or the IBM Smalltalk User's Guide.

To create a new ENVY application called Tutorial, do the following:

  1. On the VisualAge Organizer window, select Applications>New.

    The New Application window is displayed.

    Figure 28. New Application Window

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  2. In the Name field, type Tutorial.
  3. Select OK.

    The application called Tutorial is displayed in the Applications pane.

    Note:By Smalltalk convention, application names are capitalized. By Java convention, package names are lowercase. For the tutorial which follows, Smalltalk users should replace any references to the package/application named tutorial with Tutorial.


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