InfoShelf Home Print Tutorial

Before You Begin

The Visionary Tutorial consists of one exercise of step-by-step tasks that illustrate the fundamentals of how to create and publish a Visionary world. Review this first page before you attempt the tasks in the following list, because you need to install a sample database before you begin.

1. Creating a Storyboard

2. Connecting to a Database

3. Building a Data Source

4. Inserting a Scene

5. Inserting a Layout

6. Inserting a Scene Parameter

7. Refining Text Objects

8. Creating Wormholes

9. Creating a Parameterized Query

10. Adding Scene Parameters

11. Inserting a Global Parameter

12. Inserting an Event Action

13. Publishing a World

This exercise will take approximately one hour to complete.

Installing the Sample Database

Before you can begin the tutorial exercise, you need to ask your database administrator (DBA) to install the stores7 sample database. The stores7 database is included with the Informix server. For installation details, direct your DBA to the Informix Developer Network (IDN) at http://www.informix.com/idn-secure/Visionary/WebPages/doclib.htm or to the Informix Visionary User's Guide.

Accessing Commands

You can access commands from the main menu bar or with a right-click to display a popup menu. All the tasks in the tutorial access commands with a right-click when this is available.

Tips

A drop-down list of all tasks is available at the beginning of each task. There are also buttons at the beginning and end of each task for going to the InfoShelf home page, to this page, and to print this tutorial. You can use an overall view of the Visionary Studio Environment as a guide to its editors and windows.

Related Reading

For more information about Informix Visionary, refer to the on-line help in Visionary and the Informix Visionary User's Guide available on the Visionary InfoShelf.

InfoShelf Home Print Tutorial