Causeway is a Gui development environment which lets you build reliable APL Windows applications faster than any other tool you can buy. This release requires Dyalog APL 8.2, 9.0 or 10.0 (or later).

Contents

• How to Use this Tutorial
• New in the October 1999 Release
• What is Causeway?
• Visualising APL Variables as GUI Objects
• Programming with Events

• How to Make a Simple Dialogue Box
• Adding Controls
• Arranging and Aligning Objects
• Setting the Designer Preferences
• Setting Properties
• Changing an Object’s Type
• Running the Finished Dialogue

• Introducing the Picture Editor
• Using the Editing Controls
• Exporting and Importing Pictures
• Working with the Finished Artwork

• Introduction to the Windows Utilities
• Win.Folder – browse for folder
• Win.HTMHelp – call into a CHM file at a given page
• Progress Bar Namespace

• How to Design a ‘Main’ Application
• Writing the Application Code
• Adding Menus and Toolbars
• Putting in ‘Proper’ Windows File Behaviour
• Calling a Subsidiary Dialogue (Using a Grid)
• Linking to a Help File
• Running it for Real
• Gaining Speed and Saving Disk Space
• Running Causeway from QuadSE

• How to Make a Set of Tabbed Subforms
• How to Set up MDI Children
• Using Namespaces with MDI
• Adding a Simple Chart from RainPro
• Building a Print Preview for NewLeaf
• Adding a New Class

• The Causeway Class Library
• Adding a New Class Library
• Adding a New Class
• Removing a Class
• The Specification Format
• The Bitmap Property
• The Metafile Property
• The Hidden Property
• Class-Specific Property Types