VA Assist
VA AssistVA Assist seamlessly integrates with the VisualAge Composition Editor to help you build UIs faster and easier. VA Assist streamlines most common visual editing operations and adds many time-saving features. VA Assist eliminates the pain associated with setting widget attachments as well as eliminating most of the cases where you need to open the standard settings view.
VA Assist replaces the standard Composition Editor toolbar with a small tabbed notebook with 8 pages of toolbar buttons: Standard, Tools, Settings, Layout, Size & Position, Links, Parts and Setup.
Some of the Tools page features are Select All, Select All in Same Class, Bring to Front, Send to Back, and Inspect. The Settings page allows you to change many common part styles without needing to access the settings view. Style changes can be applied to multiple widgets simultaneously. The Layout page includes attachment styles that can be applied to one or more widgets with a single mouse click. Lock a group of widgets to the lower right corner of the window with one mouse click! The Size and Position page has a over dozen options such as Set Size and Position, Alignment, Move and Size by Pixel. The Links page gives you a dozen options for displaying and filtering displays of links. This lets you concentrate on just the event or attribute connections you're interested in. The Parts page gives you quick access to all of the parts found on the Composition Editor's palette.
VA Assist does not modify any Composition Editor code and has no effect on run-time code because it uses only existing protocols and accesses existing development time data structures in the same way the Composition Editor does. All features are completely integrated with the Composition Editor's undo/redo facility. VA Assist can be easily enabled and disabled at any time.
VA Assist for VisualAge Smalltalk
for Windows and OS/2 $295 
call for UNIX availability support $75/year
To order or for free information, call 9 AM to 5 PM PST, M-F.
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