• How Do I …
• Create an application
  • See what an application is
  • Create my application
    • Create my application in Quick Start
      • Example: Create applications in Quick Start
    • Create an application another way
      • Example: Create applications in Organizer
    • Create a subapplication
  • Add a part to my application
    • Example: Add parts
  • Change my application's settings
    • Change my application's prerequisites
      • Tip: Add a prerequisite
    • Define group members
    • Select a new owner for a part
    • Select a new manager
  • Open an existing application
  • Quick example: Alarm Clock
    • Step 1: Make AlarmClockApplication
    • Step 2: Add parts to AlarmClockView
    • Step 3: Change the parts' settings
    • Step 4: Change the parts' labels
    • Step 5: Change the parts' names
    • Step 6: Align the parts
    • Step 7: Add a Message Prompter part
    • Step 8: Connect parts and test it
    • Step 9: Add a script
    • Step 10: Connect a part to the script
    • Step 11: Test Alarm Clock and save it
• Add the user interface
  • See some basics of visual programming
  • Add user interface parts to a window
    • Tip: Use Sticky for multiple parts
    • Example: Add user interface parts
  • Change a part's design
    • Change a part's settings
      • Example: Change a part's settings
    • Rename a part
    • Change a part's label
      • Example: Change a part's label
    • Change a part's name
      • Example: Change a part's name
    • Change a part's fonts
      • Tip: Use Sticky for multiple font changes
      • Example: Change fonts
    • Change a part's colors
    • Tip: Use Sticky for multiple color changes
    • Example: Change colors
    • Set tabbing order to change a window's input focus
      • Tip: Customize tabbing order
  • Arrange parts so my window looks better
    • Select and deselect parts
    • Selecting one part
    • Selecting many parts
    • Reading a part's handles
    • Deselecting parts
    • Move parts
    • Resize parts
    • Align parts using options on the tool bar
    • Align parts
    • Spread parts evenly
    • Make parts the same width or height
    • Copy parts
    • Delete parts
    • Deleting parts in the Composition Editor
    • Deleting parts in the Organizer window
    • Deleting parts completely
    • Retrieving deleted parts
      • Undo options in the Composition Editor
      • Retrieving parts from the library
      • Retrieving a different edition of the part
  • Connect parts to add function to my application
    • See what a connection is
      • Attributes
      • Events
      • Actions
      • Scripts
    • Draw a connection between parts
      • Example: Connect parts
    • Make different types of connections
      • Make event-to-action connections
      • Make event-to-script connections
      • Make attribute-to-attribute connections
      • Make attribute-to-script connections
    • Set connection parameters
      • Example: Supply a connection parameter
    • Set constant parameter values
    • Retrieve connection result values
      • Example: Retrieve a connection result
    • Debug connections
    • Steps for debugging connections
    • Change connections
      • Change a connection's endpoints
      • Reorder connections
      • Delete connections
  • Display my window and its parts
  • Save my work
• Write Smalltalk scripts
  • See what a script is
  • Open a Script Editor on my part
  • Add a script
    • Tip: Keep the script type
    • Example: Write a script
    • Example: Connect the script
    • Work with attribute values using the Subpart Features Syntax tool
    • Save a script
  • Connect scripts and parts to add function
    • Example: Connect a script to a push button
  • Test my script
  • Test my script and connections
  • Debug my script
    • See what's in a debugger
    • Find the coding error
    • Find the error if I ran my application
    • Find the error if I used Execute, Display, or Inspect
    • Look at the attribute values of objects used by my application
• Test and debug my application
  • Run my application
  • Test by printing results to the Transcript window
    • Example: Print to the Transcript
  • Debug my scripts
    • See what's in a debugger
    • Find the coding error
      • Find the error if I ran my application
        • Tip: See if the script is in the class
      • Find the error if I used Execute, Display, or Inspect
      • Look at the attribute values of objects used by my application
      • Find errors in scripts that run okay, but give incorrect results
    • Fix the coding error
    • Print records of the error
  • Debug my connections
    • See what's in a Connection Trace Log
    • Find the incorrect connection
    • Fix the connection
• Change my application
  • See what's in my application
    • Look at my application
    • Look at specific parts or classes
  • Delete my work
    • Delete applications
    • Delete subapplications
    • Delete parts or classes
      • Tip: Delete parts completely
    • Delete scripts
    • Delete connections
    • Unload applications
    • Unload parts
  • Copy my work
    • Copy parts or classes between applications
    • Copy scripts
  • Rename my work
    • Rename my application
    • Rename a part or class
    • Rename a script
      • Tip: Browse senders of the old script
• Build the finished software product
  • See what's needed to build and distribute a software product
  • Package my application into a runtime image
  • Get the files I need to ship with the packaged image
• Work with databases
  • See some basics about VA Smalltalk database support
    • Database parts
    • Database managers
    • Connection specifications
      • Tip: Changing managers using an alias
    • Access sets
  • Load a database feature
  • Define ODBC data sources
    • Load ODBC Samples
  • Connect to a database manager
    • Define an access set
    • Create a connection specification
    • Add a connection specification to an access set
    • Establish a database connection using the connection specification
  • Quickly try some database examples
    • Load the database examples
    • Launch the database examples
    • Browse the database examples
  • Work with multi-row queries
    • Add a multi-row query part
    • Select a connection specification
    • Create a package specification
    • Setting a fetch policy
      • Fetch Options - Page 1 of 2
      • Fetch Options - Page 2 of 2
    • Setting an update policy
      • Update Options - Page 1 of 2
      • Update Options - Page 2 of 2
      • Tip: Use Auto commit
    • Execute queries before opening a window
    • Execute queries with a push button
    • Tear off a result table
    • Use a quick form
      • Tip: Getting a quick form
    • Display a result column
    • Modify database data
      • Tip: Apply before committing
    • Change a query
    • Delete a query
  • Work with SQL statements
    • Add an SQL statement part
    • Use the SQL statement settings window
      • Create an SQL statement interactively
      • Edit an SQL statement
      • Delete an SQL statement
  • Use the SQL editors
    • Use the SELECT Details window
      • Tip: Limiting the number of tables
      • Example: SELECT statements
        • SELECT statement 1
        • SELECT statement 2
    • Use the UPDATE Details window
    • Use the INSERT Details window
    • Use the DELETE Details window
    • Use the manual SQL editor
  • Work with stored procedures
    • Use a stored procedure part
    • Complete stored procedure fields
    • Execute stored procedures
  • Share SQL statements
    • Import and export individual queries
    • Import and export entire access sets
    • File out archival code for access sets
  • Use the SELECT Details window
    • Select or deselect multiple columns
    • Create, edit, or delete a computed column
    • Specify a computed column
    • Move a column or computed column
    • Specify a WHERE clause
    • Specify a nested SELECT statement
    • Specify a GROUP BY clause
    • Specify a HAVING clause
    • Specify an ORDER BY clause
• Work with complex parts
  • Add windows
    • Example: Use two windows
  • Add menus
    • Make the menu bar
      • Example: Add a menu bar
    • Add pull-down menus
      • Example: Add a pull-down menu
    • Add menu choices
      • Example: Add menu choices
    • Add submenus
    • Add pop-up menus
      • Tip: Copying menu choices
      • Example: Add popup menus
  • Display message boxes
    • Tip: Use Smalltalk to add a message box
    • Example: Add a message box
  • Add forms
    • Prompt for path and file names
      • Example: Open and save files
    • Prompt for text input
      • Example: Prompt for a new name
  • Use view wrappers
    • Example: Wrapper an input window
  • Start external programs
    • Example: Start Notepad
  • Test using the Form Input Checker
    • Example: Check social security entries
  • Make reusable forms
    • Add a form
      • Example: Add a form and actions
    • Use a form
      • Example: Use a form
• Share my work with others
  • Pick the best option for sharing my work
  • File out and file in my work
    • File out and file in applications
    • File out and file in visual parts
    • File out and file in access sets
    • File out and file in script-based parts
    • Make a binary file of my work, then transfer it
  • Export and import my work
    • Export my work
    • Import my work
    • Add my work to a new library, then transfer it
  • Web Services Tips, Hints and FAQs
    • Tip: How can I override the default XML serialization logic?
    • How can I disable/enable SOAP multi-ref serialization?
    • How can I supply custom deserializers to provide custom logic for mapping XML into objects?
    • How can I print incoming and outgoing SOAP messages on my Web services server?
    • How can I print incoming and outgoing SOAP messages on my Web services client?
    • How can I clean up the sockets and active HTTP servers in my image?
    • How does VAST default serializer determine the XML schema type for an object that is defined as 'anyType'?
    • How can I disable validation during WSDL parsing?
    • How can I enable code page conversion of SOAP messages during serialization?
    • How can I deploy commonly used schemas to a Web services container?
    • How can I enable a VAST container to process SOAP 1.2 messages?
    • How can I enable a VAST client service to send SOAP 1.2 messages?
    • How can I configure client services to pass WS-Security information?
    • How can I specify a custom servlet for processing incoming service requests?
    • How can I make use of custom SST transports for invocation of remote service operations?
    • How can I map a Smalltalk Dictionary to XML?
    • How can I Reset the Web Services Environment During Development?
  • How do I... tips
    • Create an application
    • Add the user interface
    • Write Smalltalk scripts
    • Test and debug my application
    • Change my application
    • Work with complex parts
    • Work with Web Services
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    • Create an application
    • Add the user interface
    • Write Smalltalk scripts
    • Test and debug my application
    • Work with databases
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