Progress
Language Tutorial
for Windows
ADE Desktop
From the ADE Desktop, you launch Progress development tools. When you exit a tool that you started from the desktop, you return to the desktop.
Figure 2–1 presents the ADE Desktop and identifies its parts.
Figure 2–1: The ADE Desktop
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The ADE Desktop consists of:
- Menu bar — The menu bar is a horizontal list of menu titles. A menu is a collection of related options. You’ll learn how to use menus later in this chapter.
- Tool buttons — Tool buttons are images that you click to start a tool. There are seven tool buttons on the ADE Desktop. From left to right, the tool buttons representing these tools:
- When you are running Progress either on Windows 95 or on Windows NT 4.0, the labels do not automatically display. Pause your mouse pointer over each tool button to display a ToolTip that identifies each icon by its tool name. A ToolTip is a brief text message that defines various user interface elements on Windows 95 or on Windows NT 4.0.
NOTE: If you are running Progress on Windows NT 3.51, each tool button has a permanent label displayed.As you can tell from the ADE Desktop, there are several tools that you can explore from the ADE Desktop. However, this tutorial focuses on the Procedure Editor and the Data Dictionary.
Let’s get started with the Procedure Editor. Click the Procedure Editor icon on the ADE Desktop to start the Procedure Editor.
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