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ArticlesLotus Notes Release 4.0 Improves Programmability


March 1996 / Applications Development Features / Net-Surfing with Notes / Lotus Notes Release 4.0 Improves Programmability

Developers are certain to notice the new integrated development environment (IDE) in Notes 4.0. Its three-pane interface (Design, Action, and Properties) improves access to all programming facilities. Other enhancements include:

Simple Actions, which provide easy access to common document management functions, such as copying a document, changing a field value, or moving a document to a folder. Programming is reduced to simple point-and-click development.

Over a dozen new or enhanced @functions have been added to Lotus's cla ssic macro language. These include functions to interface with agents and manipulate uniform resource locators (URLs) on the Web.

Agents, which are background macros, run application logic that's either expressed as Simple Actions or macros or written in LotusScript. They allow developers to automate tasks such as data handling, replication, and message services.

LotusScript 3.0 , a cross-platform, object-oriented superset of the BASIC programming language, gives you control structures, looping mechanisms, and data-structure management.

A robust debugging environment for developing and testing Notes applications. The debugger supports breakpoints, object inspection, flow tracing, and syntax checking.


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