LANSA Editor Tutorials
What are the LANSA Editor Tutorials?
This tutorial is for new LANSA developers and is designed to teach basic source code editing skills. It focuses on the editor features and techniques for using the Visual LANSA source code editor as opposed to teaching programming skills to build applications. No experience with the LANSA Repository or RDML programming language is required.
This brief set of exercises covers the essential areas of the LANSA editor:
VED030 - Auto Complete and Command Assistant
Before you Begin
You must have LANSA Demonstration Personnel System installed in the partition that you will use with the set up options as described in What Partition Should I Use?
The LANSA Demonstration Personnel System contains all the objects used by these exercises.
Tips for using the exercises
- Check off each step in the exercise as you complete it.
- Follow the instructions very carefully.
- Remember to replace iii with your unique 3 characters. You will not always be reminded to make this substitution.
- These exercises assume that you have not previously customized the editor interface. If you have already customized your environment, the example screens and instructions may not exactly match your customized development environment.
The first steps in an exercise will provide very precise descriptions of the tasks to be performed. As the steps and course progresses, the instructions will become much more general.
Later exercises are designed to use skills from the earlier exercises. These exercises are designed to be completed in sequence.