Application menu
Figure 1–2 shows the Application menu. This manual covers only some of the functions available, namely, those that have the most impact on supporting general application development functions.
The Application menu contains the following functions:
- Product Control — Defines details about the installed products and product modules.
- Instance Attribute Control — Defines the unique, instance-specific characteristics of generic objects, customized to suit a particular application of it.
- Toolbar and Menu Designer — Allows for the creation of items, bands, band structures, toolbar/menu structures, and object/band association structures.
- Country Control — Defines countries for application localization.
- Nationality Control — Defines nationalities for application localization.
- Language Control — Defines languages for application localization.
- Translation Control — Defines translations for application text objects for any defined language. This includes information on the run-time Translate Window function that allows users to translate text objects in any application window they are using while they use it.
- Category Control — Defines criteria for data categorization that can be applied to any table, using a one-level to three-level category typing scheme. This facility is critical to implementing several other Progress Dynamics-supported application features, including generic database comments and progressive status tracking, among others. You can use it wherever you need a way to add a degree of logical structure to the flat data of a table, or even to define valid lists of values.
- Custom Procedure Control — Defines logical names and descriptions for custom procedures that you want to access in the framework.
- Multi Media Type Control — Defines the file types and instantiating program for virtually any type of file format, including sound, audio-visual, video, or word-processing files. This allows such files to be linked to and referenced from Progress Dynamics entities.
- Multi Media Image Control — Maintains images being added to the
MultiMediatable. This was mainly added to allow the addition of images for the dynamic TreeView nodes but does not limit it to that. - Status Control — Defines progressive status codes that you can use to maintain states of change and thresholds in your application data, including status histories of any extent. This is to support the internal workings of a status tracking system that you design and implement as part of your application.
- Currency Control — Defines currencies for application localization.
For more information on these controls, see Chapter 4, " Supporting Built-in Application Features." This also includes a description of how to use the Generic Database Commenting and Auditing features that are built into the Progress Dynamics UI and data management infrastructure.