Eiffel Resource Bench Manual
Overview
Resource Bench features
A Guided Tour
Troubleshooting
Overview
The Eiffel Resource Bench lets you use popular Windows
interface builders
("resource editors") and combine
them with the power of Eiffel for writing your application faster and better.
With Resource Bench you will gain precious time to market and dazzle your
customers with the quality of both the interface and the application.
From a Windows "Resource File", Resource Bench will generate
Eiffel Classes providing your application with necessary graphical mechanisms,
based on the Windows Eiffel Library (WEL).
Resource Bench is entirely written in Eiffel using the power of the
ISE Eiffel libraries: WEL, EiffelLex, EiffelParse and EiffelBase.
To produce a graphical WEL-based application, all you need is a resource
file, created with an ordinary interface builder such as Microsoft
Developer Studio or Borland Resource Workshop, or with a resource file
editor. Resource Bench will parse this resource file and generate WEL-based
Eiffel source code.
Because it automatically generates classes that would take a long time
to write by hand (for example 50 classes, each with its own creation routine
and some routine redefinitions, assuming you have 50 different dialogs
in your application), Resource Bench reduces the development time of your
Windows project and enables you to concentrate on your product's added
value.
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