Defining a project or application actions

In the context of the Designer, a GUI action (project, application or window action) is the unit that can be called from a command line. Hence, in order to run an ODABA GUI application, a GUI action has to be defined. GUI actions, however, might also be called within the application in order to activate a sub-application or to show dialogs.

The GUI framework considers projects as applications, that may get a number of sub-applications, i.e. each project is an application. Project and applications are defined as GUI actions within the ODABA GUI framework. Typically, one runs a project rather than an application, even though one might also execute applications or window actions as GUI applications.

After creating the project, the project window referenced in the project definition has to be designed.