In this section, you look at more of the code the AppBuilder generated for your window, so that you understand how it works. By doing this, you can learn some new ABL statements used to define visual objects and database queries. This section also explains some of the ways in which this is not typical of the complete applications you write. As you progress through this guide, you learn about how the OpenEdge development tools can help you create applications where there is no compiled ABL code for the user interface at all! But to work in that mode, you need to learn a little more about dynamic programming in ABL.

This section provides a grounding in the static definitions that are the starting point for the more dynamic object definitions you use later.