Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Advanced Development

User Interface Manager

The User Interface Manager (UIM) supports the generation of the user interface by a Web browser, and in principle, by any other non-4GL client types as well. It delivers all the information required for the client to draw the UI and control the run-time execution of an application developed using the Progress Dynamics framework. This includes the following:

User interface (a screen, for example, Order Entry).
Application data (for populating the user interface, for example, order number).
User interface changes/behaviors (for example, enable/disable field, highlight/unhighlight fields and pop-up messages, information, menu, toolbar, TreeView, etc.).

The client is responsible for processing the output of the UIM and rendering the application UI. The manager is also responsible for retrieving client request data. It is expected that a new version (subclass) of the UIM will be created to support each different client type in future releases, each sharing a common API, and that the UIM will eventually be used for all client types.