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Assembling the Order Tracking System

This chapter is a tutorial that leads you through assembling the main window of the sample application, the SportsPro Order Tracking System. You will assemble it from the sample SmartObjects supplied with OpenEdge.

To assemble the application, you start by creating a new SmartWindow to serve as a container for the other objects. Then you add the SmartObjects to the SmartWindow. As you do add more SmartObjects, you create SmartLinks that allow the various SmartObjects to exchange information and instructions with each other in a standardized way.

This chapter has the following sections:

Progress Advisor
Tutorial structure
Reconnecting the Sports2000 database
Assembling the main window
Building the Customer section
Building the Order section
Building the Order Line section