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 VisualMust ® - Written
entirely in the JavaTM programming language.
Welcome,
You're just reading the presentation of the most advanced
tool for JavaTM developers. Written entirely
in the JavaTM programming language, you
may use it on any operating system hosting a 1.3.0 (and later) JavaTM
virtual machine. The top-left part of the window will help you in
browsing the Subsystems sections.
Scope
of Product
VisualMust is the most comprehensive tool available
today for creating and integrating a JavaTM
Graphic User Interface into your application. Visual Must
is a multiplatform IDE, composed of a WYSIWYG Interface Builder,
a graphical debugger, a syntactic text editor, a System Recovery,
a generator of JavaTM source
code. It aims at the JavaTM
developers community.
This product is completely different from all the
other development tools available in the Java arena. VisualMust
is intended to be used by application programmers who have a rather
good knowledge of the Java language. Its aim is not to generate
lines of code that will have to prove to be better than the ones
the programmer may produce by himself. This is just a tool and it
does not pretend to be clever than you.
VisualMust is an application design aid, it
will save you all the troubles of building your user interface.
By an extensive use of the Drag and Drop facility, it will
allow you to dress-up your frames and dialogs in an intuitive way
using the What You See Is What You Get paradigm.
Once you have laid out your user interface, VisualMust
will also save you the trouble of handling all the events you are
not interested in : VisualMust will make your code rely
on an adapter (as required by the Java architecture) using the one
that is available or creating one on the fly if needed. In any case,
you will only have to handle the event you specified without worrying
about the others. VisualMust will create an empty method that will
be called when this event will occur. You will define the real handling
of this event by developing the body of this method.
VisualMust does not impose you any limitation :
you are completely free to invent new ways of responding to a given
event, to use any JavaBeanTM,
commercial or from your own. Your imagination is way richer that
the one of the conceptors and it seems better to let you code what
you want than restrict you to only use what anybody thought as «good
for you». Once the Java files have been generated, you are
even free of not using VisualMust anymore to polish your
application. Nevertheless, all your definitions are stored in a
reentrant file, so you can incrementally modify or improve your
GUI as often as you like.
Written entirely in the JavaTM
programming language, VisualMust is therefore compatible
with all the platforms that support JavaTM
1.3 and later. Though VisualMust runs only under JavaTM
1.3 and later, the code generated by VisualMust is
compatible from JavaTM 1.1.8
to 1.3 and later.
Since VisualMust is both "written entirely
in the JavaTM programming language"
and 100 % SwingTM, you may
change the Look and Feel available on your platform. A large part
of VisualMust was generated by VisualMust itself.
VisualMust allows you to define any and all objects
known to JavaTM, including
your own Java beans, with a variety of different parameters which
modify the behavior or appearance of the object being constructed.
Those parameters are named "Properties" in JavaTM
terminology. There is no practical limit to the number of JavaBeansTM
(i.e windows/controls) you can create.
VisualMust is a multiplatform tool, composed
of several subsystems that will be discussed in separate chapters.
The Scope of Subsystems chapter offers a summary of :
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