Concepts
- Last Updated: March 12, 2026
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- OpenEdge
- Version 13.0
- Documentation
This topic includes the following:
- Introducing the ABL GUI Designer
- OpenEdge AppBuilder perspective
- Benefits and limitations of GUI Designer
- Code analysis in GUI Designer
- Coding conventions to generate AppBuilder code
- Read-only code sections of AppBuilder-generated code
- About SmartObjects
- SmartObject instance
- SmartObject master
- Paging in SmartObjects
- Layout
- About Method Library
- Common capabilities of SmartObjects
- About custom object file