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| − | '''SDA''', or ''Screen Design Aid'', is a DDS editing tool that lets you do quasi-WYSWIG design & maintenance of DDS for display files. It comes with [[OS/400]] as part of [[ADTS/400]] and it was also available on [[S/36]] [[SSP]]. | + | [[Category:Displays Programming]] |
| + | '''SDA''', or ''Screen Design Aid'', is a DDS editing tool that lets you do quasi-WYSWIG design & maintenance of DDS for display files. It comes with [[OS/400]] as part of [[ADTS/400]] and it was also available on [[S/36]] [[SSP]]. The kinds of objects created with SDA are conceptually similar to many from [[DDS]] and [[UIM]]. Some of what SDA can edit can also be updated by [[PDM]] and [[SEU]]. | ||
== SDA Features == | == SDA Features == | ||
Revision as of 06:20, 12 June 2005
SDA, or Screen Design Aid, is a DDS editing tool that lets you do quasi-WYSWIG design & maintenance of DDS for display files. It comes with OS/400 as part of ADTS/400 and it was also available on S/36 SSP. The kinds of objects created with SDA are conceptually similar to many from DDS and UIM. Some of what SDA can edit can also be updated by PDM and SEU.
SDA Features
Design and/or modify
- Display Record Formats
- Application Menus
- Subfiles
Fill in the blank format
Generates DDS specifications, menu, display file source, message file for menus
Some knowledge of DDS keywords needed.
Extensive support for testing displays and individual indicators, without running the actual program that the screens are to be used with.
