Developing Application Dialogs
Development of dialogs for use with the Tivoli SecureWay
Application Management Toolkit relies on the Tivoli Application
Extension Facility (AEF). AEF works with dialog descriptors, which
are data structures that define dialog contents and behavior. Dialog
descriptors are specified using the Dialog Specification Language
(DSL), which is provided as part of AEF and ADE.
Application dialogs written in DSL are platform independent;
however, familiarity with graphical user interface (GUI) development
using either X Windows or Microsoft Windows is helpful in
understanding the terminology. For information about installing AEF
and writing DSL, see Tivolis TME 10 AEF Users Guide.
Overview of AEF Dialogs
As with any GUI windows application, the AEF dialogs must be
managed. The relationship between thee dialogs is referred to as
parent/child. The exception, of course, is that the top-level or root
window does not have a parent. The Application Management
Toolkit dialogs run under the Tivoli desktop, which means any
dialog you create with DSL will be a child of the Tivoli desktop.
The hierarchy for the Application Management Toolkit dialogs is
similar to the following example.
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