Getting Started
The Investment application requires four different visual parts:
MainWindowView, SecurityFormView,
BuySecurityView, and SellSecurityView. To start,
you will create only the MainWindowView visual part. When
you lay out the user interfaces for the reusable part and secondary windows
later, you will refer back to this process of creating visual parts.
- Select InvestmentApp application from the VisualAge Organizer
Applications pane.
- Then, select Parts>New>Part from the VisualAge
Organizer pull-down menu or select New>Part from the
Parts pane pop-up menu.
The New Part window appears:

- On the New Part window, do the following:
- In the Part class field, type MainWindowView.
- From the Part type drop-down list, select Visual
part.
- Use the default value that appears in the Inherits from
field.
- Note:
- For visual and nonvisual parts, you will most likely want to use the default
class name provided. For Smalltalk classes however, you will want to
select the Smalltalk class that contains the methods and data that you want to
subclass. You can also type the name of an IBM Smalltalk class in this
field. Refer to the VisualAge
Smalltalk User's Guide and IBM Smalltalk User's Guide for
more information about Smalltalk parts and the Smalltalk language.
- Ensure that Open now is selected and select
OK.
If you do not have Open now selected, the part is created, the
VisualAge Organizer is updated, but the visual tools are not opened for the
part. Because you want to open the Composition Editor for the
MainWindowView part to begin laying out its user interface, you want Open
now to be selected.
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