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Once class definitions are in place, you can write createViews, a method that is sent to a view manager whenever open, a Smalltalk-supplied method, is sent to that same view manager. Later on, in Chapter••missing reference••, you learn that you can use Smalltalk Express's built-in GUI builder to define createViews. Before you can understand what the GUI builder does for you, however, you need to understand exactly how createViews works.