1 About this book
This user guide provides information on using and developing applications with Carousel. The guide is organized into an number of sections.
Section I Begins with an introduction to Carousel, its history and its position on the technology landscape.
Section II Describes the Carousel Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and the basic features that are commonly included in an application are explained.
Section III Covers more advanced features and the features that are required to build full-featured client-server applications.
Section IV Illustrates many features by way of case studies.
The guide then concludes with a selection of reference materials.
Xoetrope also provides step-by-step tutorials, courseware and on-line reference manuals so the focus of this manual is on explaining the concepts of developing applications with Carousel. The Xoetrope web site also features a developer zone where you can find working applications and numerous technical articles.
User Guide Conventions
The documentation for Carousel uses the typefaces and symbols described in the table below to indicate special text.
Table 1-1 - Document conventions
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Monospaced type represents text as it appears on screen or in Java code. It also represents anything you must type.
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Square brackets in text or syntax listings enclose optional items. Do not type the brackets
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Angle brackets in text or syntax listings indicate a variable string; type in a string appropriate for you code. Do not type the angle brackets. Angle brackets are also used for HTML tags.
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An ellipsis in syntax listing indicate code that is missing from the example.
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Italicized words represent Java identifiers, such as names of variables, classes, interfaces, components, properties, methods, and events. Italics are also used for new terms being defined
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This typeface indicates a key on your keyboard for example, "press ESC to exit".
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XUI and Carousel
Carousel is a commercial platform from Xoetrope that extends the libraries and the editor facilities available in the open source XUI platform.
Some sections of this user guide are specific to Carousel. Wherever sections are specific to the Carousel platform you will see a note is italics at the start of the section or chapter indicating that the following content refers only to Carousel.
Carousel is built upon XUI and therefore anything that can be done with XUI can be applied just as well to Carousel. The commercial Carousel specific libraries begin with the com.xoetrope package name whereas the open source libraries begin with the net.xoetrope package.
Contacting Xoetrope developer support
Xoetrope offers a variety of support options. These include free services on the Internet, where you can search our information base and connect with other users of Xoetrope products. in addition you can choose from several categories of telephone support, ranging from installation support to fee-based consultant-level support and detailed assistance.
For more information about Xoetrope's developer support services, see our website at https://xoetrope.com.
When contacting support, please be prepared to give complete information about your environment, the version of the product you are using, and a detailed description of the problem.
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