Launching VA Smalltalk with Environments This section describes how to create a development environment based on the VA Smalltalk Client installation using the Environments tool and then how to launch the developer image. Environments is a tool for creating and organizing multiple VA Smalltalk development configurations, different images configured and saved with their supporting files. Such a configuration is referred to as an environment. Developers typically keep multiple customized environments for different projects. Environments allows you to work with all of them from a single user interface. Environments will create a directory in which to store your images and supporting files. Each time you create an environment, the tool will copy all necessary files from the Client installation into a subdirectory of Environment’s root development folder. Environments has plenty of built-in help via hover help. Most buttons and fields have help available. Just hold your mouse over the control; a bubble will pop up with information on it. You start the Environments tool using one of the shortcuts created during VA Smalltalk Client installation: • Windows option #1: VA Smalltalk Environments 9.1x86 (VA Smalltalk Environments 9.1x64) shortcut on the Desktop • Windows option #2: Start>All Programs>VA Smalltalk 9.1x86>VA Smalltalk Environments 9.1x86 (Start>All Programs>VA Smalltalk 9.1x64>VA Smalltalk Environments 9.1x64) in the Start menu • UNIX option #1: run vasetup_91x86 (vasetup_91x64) from the command line • UNIX option #2: run environments from the command line while in the VA Smalltalk installation’s environments folder under varoot. Once you have launched Environments, you can • Create a new environment • Launch or edit an existing environment • Customize an environment including how to access the library Installation Considerations Note: If your VA Smalltalk Client installation is configured to connect to the library using EMSRV, EMSRV must be configured and started before any environment created by the Environments tool can open its development image. To configure and start EMSRV for Windows, see “EMSRV for Windows”. Note: If you have changed the way you access the library (mgr91.dat) or changed the library location from when you installed VA Smalltalk, you should update the abt.ini file located in the newimage folder before starting up Environments. See “Windows Reconfiguration and Startup” for more information.
