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Overview of Vision

Vision is a tool for developing forms-based applications. It provides you with an active working environment, including a visual display of your application, as well as prompts and menu operations that give instructions for building your application.

Knowledge of a programming language is not needed. Vision automatically generates the programming code that runs your applications. To take advantage of some of Vision's advanced features, however, you must be able to write statements in Ingres 4GL.

Note: Even if you are an experienced application developer, you can use Vision to build and test new applications quickly and customize the code that Vision generates to make your applications more extensive or flexible. You can also include additional code that you have written yourself.

Before you begin to use Vision to create and define frames, complete the following tasks:

• Read the section on frame types.

• Look at the examples of Vision-generated frames.

• For a discussion of the operations that users can perform on each of the Vision-generated frame types, see Vision Applications from a User’s Perspective.

These steps can help you decide which frame types to use in your applications.

Last modified date: 11/09/2022