Use the VA Smalltalk Record Class Generator window to parse the C or COBOL definition file and generate a class from a VA Smalltalk object table to represent the byte structure of selected records within the object table. The generated class will be a subclass of AbtForeignOSObject.

For a C header file, all data types declared with typedef or struct can be used to generate a class. For a COBOL copy library file, the record formats declared by 01-level declarations can be used.

You can optionally generate a pool dictionary in the generated class, which will contain the constants found in the parsed file. For a C header file, constants are built for each #define statement. For a COBOL copy file, constants are built for level-78 and level-88 items.