Connection Detangler for VisualAge for Smalltalk

Creating applications visually using parts and connections can tremendously improve the speed at which you develop applications. You can define relationships such as event dependencies between objects by creating visual connections, instead of by writing code. Unfortunately, with more than a few connections, understanding those relationships, especially interactions between parts over time, becomes very difficult to do.

This shortcoming leads to difficulty in debugging, increased maintenance costs and reduced reusability. To avoid these problems, many developers find themselves not taking full advantage of the power visual programming has to offer.

The Connection Detangler for VisualAge solves this problem by providing a dynamic view of relationships between VisualAge parts as they interact, in terms of connections. The Connection Detangler untangles the knots of connections that the VisualAge Composition Editor so easily becomes, so you can clearly see connections between parts as they truly are. This brings a new-found clarity to understanding, debugging, and maintaining VisualAge applications.

Highlights:

• Test and verify the behavior of your parts
• Locate connection performance problems
• Reveal elusive connection ordering errors
• Easily locate connections in the editor
• Reverse-engineer existing parts
• Step through and debug your connections
• Integrated with the VisualAge Composition Editor, but does not modify any Composition Editor code and has no effect on your run-time code.
• Available for Windows and OS/2 with other platforms to follow
• Downloadable 30-day free trial
• The Connection Detangler can start helping you as soon as you install it. Simply launch the Connection Detangler and exercise your applications. The Connection Detangler displays details about all connection interactions in an easy-to-follow format so you can gain immediate insight into your application's behavior. The Connection Detangler can navigate to connections in the Composition Editor directly from their displayed interactions. No more hunting for connections.
• You can use the Connection Detangler to pause on any connection and then precisely navigate the VisualAge debugger stack to see what your connections are really doing.

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