Guide to Natural Construct Publications

The listed publications in this section are available individually or can be purchased as part of a 'Publication Set' offering price savings over the individual cost of each publication within the set.

The following publications apply to the Software AG Natural development tool CONSTRUCT.

All publications listed can be purchased using the books order form.

NATURAL CONSTRUCT

• NATURAL CONSTRUCT Study Guide
• NATURAL CONSTRUCT Application Users Guide

NATURAL CONSTRUCT Study Guide

Getting started with NATURAL CONSTRUCT is a lot less complicated than most people thing especially with this study guide in hand. Designed to give the student a basic background in the CONSTRUCT development environment, its methodology and its primary models used in building applications.

The student is given an overview of the CONSTRUCT subsystems, their functions and the editors used to create and maintain the individual models. The standards on which CONSTRUCT builds models and applications are covered along with the relationships between NATURAL, CONSTRUCT and PREDICT.

These models are incorporated into the course case study, an application built from chapter to chapter using many of the CONSTRUCT fundamental models: STARTUP, MENU, QUIT, BROWSE, BROWSE-SELECT, MAINT (with a side trip to the NATURAL Map Editor), BROWSE-HELPR, and the BATCH model.

User exits are discussed exhaustively along with a strong introduction to the .G statement models. The more NATURAL programming experience the student possesses the better prepared they will be for this book. An introduction to the Help Subsystem rounds out the course and puts the finishing touches to the case study. Works with Natural Construct 4.5.x.

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NATURAL CONSTRUCT Application Development User’s Guide

NATURAL CONSTRUCT – THE development tool you can customize. What can you do with CONSTRUCT? The simple answer is that you can create and modify robust applications with blinding speed. By enhancing the programming models you can tailor these systems to your environment.

After a brief introduction, this CONSTRUCT User’s Guide walks the reader through all the steps in developing their own customized applications.

How CONSTRUCT Works

* What is it? * How generation works? * Is a program CONSTRUCT Table?

CONSTRUCT System Overview

* Standards * PREDICT * Field Definitions Relationships * Design for CONSTRUCT * Basic CONSTRUCT Application Hierarchy.

Basic Model

* Getting Started * Invoking CONSTRUCT * Generation Main Menu * User Exit Editor CONSTRUCT Panels * STARTUP and QUIT * STARTUP Panels * STARTUP User Exits QUIT Panels * QUIT User Exits * MENU * MENU Panels * MENU User Exits * MAP MAINTENANCE * MAINTENANCE Panels * MAINTENANCE User Exits * BROWSE(S) BROWSE * BROWSE-SELECT * BROWSE-SUBP * BROWSE-SELECT-SUBP * BROWSE-HELPR * BROWSE-SELECT-HELPR * BATCH.

OBJECT Models

* OBJECT-PDA * OBJECT-PDA-R * OBJECT-SUBP * OBJECT-MAINT-DIALOG.

Extended Models

* EXTENDED-INPUT-FIELDS * DRIVER * SHELL * .G COMMANDS.

CONSTRUCT Help System

* Use for Documentation * Getting Started in Help * Maintaining Texts * Creating and Maintaining * Help Profiles * User Help * Field Level, Program Level, System Level Help * Help on Help Altering CONSTRUCT provided Helproutines.

CONSTRUCT Modeling Subsystem

* What Are Models * Getting Started in Modeling * Maintaining Models * Maintaining Frames * Making Changes * Enhancements.

Learning On-Your-Own Tutorials

A basic walkthrough with detailed explanations for each step taken in building a prototype application

Introduces: STARTUP * MENU QUIT * BROWSE * BROWSE-SELECT * BROWSE-SUBP * MAINT * BROWSE-HELPR * More.

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