JGuiGen Demo

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• notes made during creation of demo script

1. Assumed to have installed: sdk, eclipse 3.1.2
2. download from cvs and show directory structure
   1. JGuiGenCode
   2. JGuiGenJars
   3. JGuiGenMisc - hsql text files, containing JGuiGenDB: Data_Dict, JGuiGen_i18n, UserLogData, CodesBank
3. vi JGuiGenIni.xml, add table name "Lead", add class name "Lead", add table model name "LeadTm"
4. launch db admin. sh ./runUtil.sh DatabaseManager
5. cut and paste new table "Leads"
6. cut and paste new columns: id, date, address
7. run JGuiGen from the command line, classpath=".:"`echo *.jar | tr " " ":"`; java -cp $classpath JGuiGen
8. Basic flow ... start in the Data Dictionary
   1. Check Data Dictionary, Leave Flags, Run Now
   2. Edit Data Dict ... Do a bunch of stuff for each column
   3. Generate Application
   4. Exit from the Internationalization causes a write
   5. Generate HTML (optional)
9. Run the gui, show out-of-the-box features of the gui
   1. View, Add, Edit, Delete
   2. Search
   3. Oh, what's this? ... Reports!
   4. And more ...
      1. try closing a window
      2. try changing the row to edit
10. wash, rinse, repeat 6,7,8 and 9 showing features
    1. Quickly adding a column
       1. ssn
       2. phone
       3. address
    2. Change validation error message and Test
    3. Internationalization
    4. Hot keys
    5. run test scripts against the gui
    6. show test script output
11. launch eclipse (3.1.2 makes a difference)

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