R.A.D. stands for "Rapid Application Development". The RAD is used to automatically build an application, which means all necessary windows, reports and queries.

	Note	WINDEV is supplied with several "RAD patterns" allowing you to generate several application templates. You also have the ability to create your own RAD patterns. See Creating a RAD pattern for more details.

The windows, the reports, the queries and the code generated by RAD can be customized. You also have the ability to modify the types of controls, the default values, ...

	Note	RID (Rapid graphical Interface Design) WINDEV also allows you to generate windows containing the controls linked to the analysis items only. The code required for these windows to operate must be written by the developer. See Type of windows/pages created by RID for more details.

• To start generating RAD:
  1. On the "Project" pane, in the "Generation" group, click "Full Application RAD". The wizard for generating the RAD application starts.
     
     Select the pattern that will be used for RAD generation: "Simple RAD" for example. Go to the next wizard step.
     

     	Express	Only the simple RAD template is available in Express version. The wizard does not allow you to choose the RAD pattern to use. The wizard directly allows you to choose the data files to select.
  2. All data files found in the analysis will be taken into account:
     
  3. Go to the next step.
  4. The entry points of application correspond to the entries available in the menu.
     
     Keep the Customer, Orders, PaymentMode and Product data files only. Go to the next step.
  5. Specify whether the Table controls generated in the application windows must be allow the input or not. In our example, the Table controls will allow the user to type new information. Select "Yes: Allow the input in the Table controls (editable Table controls)". Go to the next step.
  6. Specify whether the user groupware will be used in the application. It will be presented later in this tutorial. Select "No: Don't include the user groupware management".
     
  7. Go to the next step. Specify whether the automatic menu will be included in the application. Answer "Yes: Include the '?' menu".
     
  8. Go to the next step. The wizard for RAD generation is ended. Validate. The wizard for generating the automatic menu starts.
     

     	Note	The automatic menu is a help menu suited for your applications. This menu allows the users of your applications to easily access several features.

• The different options proposed by the wizard for generating the automatic menu are as follows:
  
  1. Keep "Help for AAF (Automatic Application Features)".
  2. End the wizard.

	Note	When creating the '?' menu, the option "? .. Help for AAFs (Automatic Application Features)" automatically added into your application: the "CCMenu" component. Indeed, this option is using a component procedure to operate. the "WINDEV 24 AAF.PDF" file. This file will be automatically opened when using the menu option.

The application is generated and its test can be run.

	Note	GUI errors may appear in the Compilation Errors pane. These errors signal interface problems, especially in the reports (captions too long for example). To correct these errors, the reports must be modified.

Let's now run the test of generated application.

• To run the application test:
  1. Click among the quick access buttons. The application starts.
  2. In the menu, select "Customers/Prospects .. List of Customers/Prospects".
  3. The list of customers is displayed.
  4. To add a new person, click the "New" button. An input form is displayed.
     
  5. Type information about a customer and validate.
  6. Close the list of persons.
  7. In the menu, select "Product .. List of products". The list of products is displayed.
  8. Close the test window. The WINDEV editor is redisplayed.