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Day 1! Now, what the heck do I do?
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I'll give the tutorial a go, although by nature I'm a bit impatient with these kinds of things.
Tutorial: Discovering WinDev
Some very basic stuff here. Definition of an application, a project (what in C7 and later Clarion devs call a solution). Which raises the question of how you organize really large apps in WinDev.
Analysis, skins and style sheets
Really key word in WinDev. The analysis is the data dictionary, and (although not mentioned in this part of the tutorial) can be shared among projects.
Skins are also mentioned as a key concept - the skin controls the appearance of the application. And style sheets. I'm familiar with CSS and I can see how this would be key to web apps, but this is a WinDev tutorial so it will be interesting to see how style sheets come into play.
My_First_Windows
My_First_Windows is the first tutorial sample project. The tutorial tells me I'm going to create a few windows and some basic controls.
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Our ten year old daughter just came in to the office to say goodbye before she left for school. The monitor with the WinDev IDE caught her attention. "That is soooo cool! What is that?" "It's WinDev." "I love it!" |
If you click right on the icon instead of choosing an item from the drop list you get what for lack of a better term I'll call the "New" wheel:
(Daughter again: "WinDev - it's even cooler now!)
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