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Here are some key features of "Wakanda Studio":

Your Command Center:
· The Solution Manager, which appears at launch, is the gateway to managing all of your Wakanda projects. It provides a straightforward hierarchical menu to quickly navigate your web app's components, including all the HTML, CSS, image, and associated files. You can have multiple solutions, inside which you can have multiple projects. The central workspace pane adapts to the type of file you open, bringing up the Datastore Model Designer for your model, the GUI Designer for HTML, and the Code Editor for JavaScript.

Modeling Made Easier:
· One of the more novel aspects of Wakanda Studio is the Datastore Model Designer. This is where you visually (and instinctively) draw your data models. You can click, drag, and draw relations between classes naturally. Clicking on each item allows you to modify its associated events and methods via a properties panel. If your model grows beyond what can be seen on the screen, you can easily zoom in and out, show or hide classes, or quite simply navigate a “map” of your structure. With Wakanda, even the most sophisticated data structures are totally manageable.

WYSIWYG that Works:
· The GUI Designer looks like a typical WYSIWYG web page editor, but it's much more powerful. Each of Wakanda’s interface elements – known as widgets – can be bound to data elements and functions on the server. Define the color, form, shape and overall appearance of widgets, and your CSS file will be autmoatically updated for you. You can further use the catalog panel to bind widgets to all of the functionality available to your application, all without any code. (Unless you want to add any, of course.) If it exists on the server, it’s available in the panel.

Faster, More Accurate Coding:
· The Code Editor, which provides all the functionality one would expect from a typical editor. However, Wakanda’s implementation of auto-completion in the editor not only provides type-ahead functionality for syntax, but for all of the data and logic on the server too. The Code Editor can auto-complete datastore class names, methods, JavaScript arrays, variables and objects, saving you even more time and reducing the chance of errors.

Foolproof Binding:
· The dynamic connection makes for the “unbreakable” nature of Wakanda development. Because everything is so closely tied to the model and the business logic – the datastore classes, the methods, etc. – each part is synchronized with the other. If you change the behavior of a class or an attribute on the back end, it will automatically be reflected in the front end. Each connection carries all of its inherent logic with it, so when you update the back end, you won’t have to redo your front end, and vice versa.