Introduction to Pathmaker

How Pathmaker Helps
Introduction to Pathmaker and Pathway
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Pathmaker Full Screen Interface Features
Other Pathmaker full screen interface features used during the development of an
application include:
Help screens that provide information about the purpose of the Pathmaker screens
and the legal values that can be entered in the screen fields.
Ability to incorporate additional code into the requesters and servers that the
Pathmaker product generates.
The screen painter, which shows changes to the layout of the end user screen as
they are made.
Simulation of the end user interface during development.
Ability to easily provide the end users with help screens within the application
being created.
Ability to modify the end user help screens after the application has been placed
into production.
Generation of reports about the contents of the catalog.
Interactive access to other Tandem products such as TEDIT, the File Utility
Program (FUP), and so on.
Creation of Pathway command files to configure and start the application for
testing. (These command files can serve as a model for the production command
files.)