Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development

Progress Dynamics Integration with the AppBuilder

The Progress AppBuilder remains the starting point for Progress application development, even with the addition of all the new tools provided with the Progress Dynamics framework. To support development both with and without Progress Dynamics, the AppBuilder operates in two different modes. In its standard mode, its menus appear as they do in Progress running without Progress Dynamics. When you run the AppBuilder with Progress Dynamics, the menus of the AppBuilder change to provide access to all of the new tools that are part of the Progress Dynamics framework. This chapter provides an overview of all the Progress Dynamics tools accessible from the AppBuilder. It describes some of the tools and points to other chapters for detailed discussions of most others.

This chapter includes the following sections:

Starting the AppBuilder
Progress Dynamics AppBuilder UI enhancements
Administration window
Development window
Design windows for Repository objects
Creating new Repository objects
Opening objects for editing
Saving an object to the Repository
Adding a file to the Repository
Saving a dynamic object as static
Editing properties for Repository objects
Running objects
Closing Repository objects
Object palette and object template information stored in the Repository
Summary