Progress
AppBuilder
Developer’s Guide
Tools Menu
The Tools menu, as shown in Table 2–4, gives you access to several of the important AppBuilder dialog boxes as well as the other Progress tools installed on your system.
Tools
New Procedure Window
Shortcut: CTRL–F3 — Opens a version of the Procedure Editor, with a reduced number of menu items. The Procedure Editor is not AppBuilder’s built-in Section Editor, and should not be used to edit files that were created by AppBuilder. (Note that the behavior of this Procedure Editor may be slightly different to that of the standard Progress editor of the same name—the two do not use the same underlying code.)
Tools
New ADM Class
Opens a dialog box to allow basic definition of a new class, generating all the relevant files. Entering the classname automatically fills in the blanks for the other fields.
Tools
Property Sheet
Opens the appropriate base-properties dialog box for the current object.
Tools
Procedure Settings
Opens the file-level properties dialog box for the current procedure file. Procedure settings include the:
- Type of procedure file
- Filename
- Description
- Location of the properties for ActiveX objects, if any, in this context
- Directory in which AppBuilder compiles the procedure file
- External tables (if any) required for the procedure file
- Settings for running from AppBuilder
- Custom lists available for the procedure file
- Relevant information about partition and pages, if the file represents a SmartObject
Additionally, if you open a template, you can access the template’s advanced procedure settings. These settings determine, among other things, what types of objects you can place in a design window. For more information, see the section "Procedure Settings" in "Frequently Used Dialogs."
Tools
Color
Opens the color selector for the current object. Not available in Remote (WebSpeed) mode.
Tools
Database Connections
Opens a window to display, add to, or remove current database connections.
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