Progress
AppBuilder
Developer’s Guide


Introduction

According to many industry estimates, in applications with a graphic user interface, the GUI itself might account for as much as 75% of the total application code.

The Progress AppBuilder tool is a Rapid Application Prototyping/Development (RAP/RAD) tool similar in concept to, for example, Microsoft’s Visual development tools. The main component of AppBuilder is a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) interface layout editor. AppBuilder appreciably simplifies your application programming effort by

This chapter briefly introduces some important concepts, and describes AppBuilder and its place in the Progress application programmer’s toolkit:


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