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Analysis and Design Phase—What SmartObjects Are Needed?

Before you assemble an application screen with SmartObjects, you must analyze how you want the screen to appear and behave. Once you decide what you want a screen to look like and how you want it to behave, you begin to think about building the required SmartObjects.

In most cases, when you build screens, you do not need to design any new types of SmartObjects because you can use Progress-supplied SmartObjects. Consequently, the analysis phase is greatly simplified.

For complex applications, the analysis phase might uncover the need for a new type of SmartObject. You then determine how to design and create the new SmartObject, define its user interface and its behaviors, and write the internal procedures.


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