Operating System and Application Interfaces
Information and examples for interfacing ABL applications to the operating system and common applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, and e-mail
Generate include files for Windows constants
Fri, 2006-10-06 09:51 — tbergmanThe included program allows the generation of include files containing pre-processor definition for all of the constants within any type library. Type libraries may either be specific type library files (.olb,.tlb) or can be contained within .exe,.dll or .ocx files.
I typically need to know constants when working with COM or ActiveX objects in the 4GL. Often, the documentation for such objects refers to various property values by the name of the constant. This is because most documentation is geared towards development environments where the constant values will automatically be made available to the developer. Such is not the case for Progress.
Win32 API samples
Thu, 2006-09-28 17:45 — jurjenThis collection of code snippets used to be hosted on www.global-shared.com.
It is an old collection: it all began in 1996 or 1997, when Progress 8 was new and many of us were still using Windows 3.1 !!
Unlike wine or paintings, program code doesn't get better when it ages. You can find fragments that can be improved because Microsoft continuously expands their API, or are outdated because Progress has added features to the ABL so we don't need to use the WIN32 API anymore.
Stylus Studio Adapter
Wed, 2006-04-26 17:45 — rssreaderThe purpose of this service is to take the Stylus API and use it as a service on the ESB.
