FormManager

FormManager complements VisualAge for Smalltalk and VisualAge for C++ with some important additional capabilities. These features are very useful for building client-server applications with a sophisticated graphical user interface: FormManager greatly improves VisualAge capabilities in this area.

FormManager brings to VisualAge a quick way for developing and prototyping applications with heavy user interaction, adding input validation capabilities, function keys and keyboard remapped behavior, and much more.

Besides the many new features included, FormManager incorporates the experience and knowledge of our staff in application development. This experience has enabled us to provide FormManager multiple solutions to circumvent all the drawbacks and lacks found in other development tools we have been using. We have also tried to combine all of their advantages in an easy and intuitive design.

Provided Functionalities

• Control over both keyboard and mouse user interaction with the system.
• Centralized configuration for all fields from a single settings notebook.
• Possibility of performing multiple validations on the fields that FormManager manages (mandatory fields, must-fill fields).
• Auto-clear behavior control for the fields.
• Error messages for the most frequent required situations.
• Function keys definition and management.
• Adding customized validation methods option.
• Keyboard remapped definition and management.
• Method header displayer for available classes.
• Ergonomic aspects of the GUI (field background color, error messages appearance).
• Embedded FormManagers support.

FormManager offers developers an easy way to include enhanced functionalities in their applications without having to implement them. It also reduces significantly the time spent in an advanced GUI design as well as the need for visual connections.

FormManager is available for VisualAge for Smalltalk version 3.0a for OS/2, VisualAge C++ version 3.0 for OS/2, and VisualAge C++ version 3.5 for Windows.
For more information, please contact us at:

Seinto C/ Musgo, 5 - 1ª Planta Madrid 28023 (La Florida) Spain Phone: +34-1-307-67-00 FAX: +34-1-307-73-63 E-mail: 100534.654@compuserve.com or seinto@ibm.net CompuServe: 100534,654