Topics:

• Step 1: Creating a New Winform
• Defining the Winform's Properties
• Saving Your Work and Exiting
• Step 2: Adding Fields
• Step 3: Adding a Grid
• Step 4: Adding Text
• Step 5: Adding Buttons and Triggers
• Step 6: Coding Triggers and Other Functions
• Step 7: Running the Maintain Request

In Tutorial: Coding a Procedure, you developed a Maintain application. To simplify the tutorial and focus on basic transaction logic, you were provided with the completed Winforms. Now that you are familiar with coding a basic request, in this tutorial you will develop a complete application. You paint a Winform, generate code, and add triggers all in a single application development environment: the Winform Painter.

The following topics teach you how to use many of the Painter's features and give you hands-on experience with event-driven processing and event-driven development. As you follow the tutorial's step-by-step approach, you learn how to:

• Begin a Painter session and create a new procedure that includes a Winform.
• Add fields, grids, text, and buttons to the Winform.
• Create triggers to respond to a user's actions.
• Change previous design work.
• Generate and supply code.

In these topics and in Tutorial: Coding a Procedure, " Try it now: " introduces an instruction for you to type text, select from a dialog box, or press a key.