Visual Composition Editor
Concepts
Integrated Development Environment
Internationalization
About defining bean interfaces
Visual composition
Visual programming fundamentals
Visual Composition Editor
Free-form surface
Beans palette
Visual composition hints and tips
Property sheets
Tabbing order
Torn-off properties
Layout managers in visual composition
Visual, nonvisual, and composite beans
Connections
How classes and beans are related
Generated code
Bean design for visual composition
Bean morphing
Use of visual beans created in other tools
Object serialization
Tasks
Developing programs in the IDE
Creating programs and program elements
Defining bean interfaces for Visual Composition
Internationalizing your program
Separating strings for Translation
Developing programs visually
Using visual composites from previous releases of VisualAge for Java
Working with visual beans
Editing bean properties
Displaying bean pop-up menus
Working in the beans list
Renaming beans and connections
Setting the tabbing order
Promoting bean features
Tearing off properties
Setting a layout manager during visual composition
Morphing beans
Changing look and feel in Swing-based composites
Composing beans visually
Embedding beans in a composite bean
Editing beans within a composite bean
Saving a bean
Running and testing beans
Arranging beans visually
Selecting and deselecting beans
Positioning beans
Resizing visual beans
Moving beans
Copying beans
Deleting beans
Undoing and redoing changes in the Visual Composition Editor
Connecting beans
Manipulating connections
Managing the beans palette
Using beans in the Visual Composition Editor
Incorporating user-written code into visual composites
Enabling custom edit support for your bean
Reference
Beans for visual composition
Visual Composition Editor
Modify Palette window
Choose Bean window
Reorder Connections window
Promote Features window
Pop-up menus for the Visual Composition Editor
The menu bar in visual composition
Connection windows
Property-To-Property Connection window
Event-To-Method Connection window
Event-to-Code Connection window
Parameter-from-Code Connection window
Constant Parameter Value properties window
Morph Into
Resolve Class References
String Externalization Editor
BeanInfo user interface
BeanInfo page
BeanInfo page menus
BeanInfo page tools
Samples
Visual composition
BeanDemo
BookmarkList
CustomerInfo
LayoutManagers
MortgageAmortizor