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The Dolphin Smalltalk Companion : A Hands-On Guide to Building Complete Applications
The Dolphin Smalltalk Companion : A Hands-On Guide to Building Complete Applications
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Author(s): Bracht, Ted
ISBN No.: 9780201737936
Pages: 336
Year: 200112
Format: CD-ROM
Price: $ 67.33
Status: Out Of Print

Preface. 1. Introduction. The Smalltalk language. The Dolphin Smalltalk environment. The file setup. The Launcher. The workspace.


Playground. 2. The application. What we are going to build. How we are going to build the application. A standard pattern for the components. 3. The first application component: the Team.


The Team model. The class hierarchy browser. Creating our first class. Summary. The Team presenter. Summary. Creating a view. The view composer.


The Team view. Testing the Team view. The finishing touch. The Microsoft look. Summary. Some basic maintenance work. 4. The Driver component.


The Driver model. The abstract RacingActor class. Modifications to the Team class. The Driver class. Summary. The Driver presenter and view. The Driver presenter. The Driver view.


Testing the view. Summary. The driver''s gender. The 1-of-n variable in the model. Presenting 1-of-n variables. Radio buttons. List presenters. Summary.


Some loose ends. The caption. A picture paints a thousand words. Summary. 5. The Season component. The Season model. The Collection classes.


The score definition. Summary. The name of an object. The Season presenter and view. The SeasonDialogPresenter definition. The Season view. Copy and deepCopy. Summary.


Multi-column lists. A virtual list. The multi-column ListView. Summary. 6. The RaceCar component. The RaceCar model. The RaceCar class definition.


The starting number. The Team association. The default driver. The link with the season. Summary. Error handling and the debugger. Error handling in Dolphin Smalltalk. The debugger.


Debugger playground. Another way of writing Smalltalk. Our own error handling mechanism. Summary. The RaceCar presenter and view. The lists of teams and drivers. The RaceCarView as subclass of the Shell class. Building the view for the race cars.


Summary. 7. The Circuit component. The basic Circuit model. The length of the circuit. The lap record. Summary. The Circuit presenter and view.


The milliseconds TypeConverter. The length of the circuit. Summary. 8. The Race component. The Race model. The Race presenter and view. The Race dialog.


The main Race view. Entering the results. Sorting the starters. Summary. 9. Bringing the components together. The basic racing application model. The model.


The race application presenter. The application framework view. Summary. Maintaining items. The maintenance methods. Context menus and menu bars. Enabling and disabling commands. Toolbars.


Summary. Integrating the season-dependent components. The tree model. Add branches for the Race and RaceCar. Tidying up the race application components. Global variables revisited. Opening a race for the results. 10.


The results. The results for the season. Collecting the results. A presenter for the results. Showing the results in the application shell. Dynamic resizing of multi-column lists. Summary. A graph of the results.


A short information requirement analysis. The LineGraph view. A user-definable graph. Summary. 11. Saving and importing the race data. Saving object data. Modifications to the presenter and the view.


Modifications to the models. Save data on exit. Summary. Importing comma-separated data. A generic import class. The data import wizard. Summary. Importing from the Web.


The HTML import model. The Web data import wizard. Summary. XML data. 12. Application deployment. Making an executable. Web deployment.


Summary. Appendix A. Other Smalltalk resources. Appendix B. Overview of the main classes. Appendix C. Additional tools. Appendix D.


Date and Time field formatting. Appendix E. The CD. Index. 0201737930T11262001.


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