OE Techniques and Coding
Code samples, whitepapers, and discussion on techniques for using various ABL features and solving various requirements faced in writing ABL code.
Print versions of the Progress E-Zines are now available
Tue, 2009-06-23 14:56 — Scott AugeIt has been noted that once something is on the internet, it is there forever. Apparently, this is somewhat wrong for certain types of information. The Progress E-Zine collection continues to be available on the internet, but often it is tucked away in corners that are hard to find.
With this in mind, a three volume set of the E-Zines in bound printed form are now available. No more binders full of printer paper versions of the monographs, simply reach into the book shelf for the bound copy and enjoy.
The books can be purchased from these locations:
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/progress-e-zine-collection-vo...
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/progress-e-zine-collection-vo...
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/progress-e-zine-collection-vo...
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Temp-table Expositor
Fri, 2009-06-19 18:02 — tamhasContributed by Jeff Pilant
This program is designed to assist in the generation of output for other programs. Its basic function is to take a temp table and create a file with the contents of the temp table in a convenient form. Output can be to the screen via a browse, or to a file in any of the following formats: plain text (*.TXT), comma-separated values (*.CSV), Excel spreadsheet (*.XLS), Sylk spreadsheet (*.SLK), XML file (*.XML), and Dictionary Definition file (*.DF).
The program is called as follows:
RUN tt-file.p(temp-table tt-name:handle, filename, switch)
How to add a colored square in the titlebar through api
Thu, 2009-04-23 15:12 — DriesSometimes it's neccessary to add a Caption in the titlebar to give extra information to the user of your application. The attached file does this, and makes sure the window got redrawn when windows triggers arive.
As you can see, many instances of msgblst32 are added on this window. The goal is to make it more the controlling window which always catches the events on the underlaying session applications. As every window needs its own ocx, I provided 40 instances which are hopefully enough to maintain every window.
Using Object Oriented Programming For Custom Programming In A SaaS Application
Tue, 2009-04-21 06:20 — Scott AugeIn the SaaS world, often customers will want their own customizations into the source code specific to how they want to do business with your software.
Here is a point where object oriented programming stands out. By crafting your programming in such a way that basic functionality is enhanced - you can use different classes specific to particular customers for enhanced implementation.
Since we are going to potentially be using one of multiple classes, we need to have an interface describing the methods available in the class.
SAX-READER from GOOGLE
Mon, 2009-03-09 12:06 — fvergniaudI use the sax-reader to get information about geocoding an address. I is very usefull because correct the address, check it and give my the geoposition ( lat/long ).
The problen is that in Spanish there are tilde in vocals line "José" and the SAC-READER don´t retrive it.
I give a simple example to check whay I meen, just run in the Procedure Editor, I would appreciate any help.
/*****************************************/
DEFINE VARIABLE hParser AS HANDLE NO-UNDO.
define variable hhandler as handle no-undo.
define variable clee as char no-undo.
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OOP Mail Classes in Progress ABL/4GL Available
Thu, 2009-03-05 03:58 — Scott AugeA new library of Amduus Classes I am putting together includes some code for sending email in Progress 10.1a or better programs.
Example call in HTML with embedded images and an attachment.
define variable M as com.amduus.mail.MailBySendmail no-undo.
define variable HTML as character no-undo.
M = new com.amduus.mail.MailBySendmail().
M:ToEmail = "sauge@localhost".
M:FromEmail = "root@localhost".
M:BCCEmail = "root@localhost".
M:Subject = "Test 1".
HTML = "<html><body>"
+ 'This is a <b>test</b> <img src="cid:y1"> email'
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Video on calling web services from the 4GL/ABL
Tue, 2009-03-03 19:36 — Scott AugeI have a video up on amduus.com on how to call out to web services with example coding.
The video can be seen at http://amduus.com/training/Using_bprowsdldoc.html
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Book on object oriented programming available
Tue, 2009-03-03 19:33 — Scott AugeI have a book on object oriented programming in the ABL language available at http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback_book/discussions_of_object_oriente...
Video on setting up Webspeed on MS Windows
Sat, 2009-02-28 16:39 — Scott AugeSince it is asked quite often in the Progess community how to set up a broker in the MS Widnows environment, here is a little video on how to accomplish this.
View the video at http://amduus.com/training/WebspeedBrokerOnWindows.html
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Example function to return various date formats. YYYYMMDD
Fri, 2009-02-27 16:51 — dherrinIn this example function you pass to it the format you want YYYYMMDD YYMMDD ISO etc. along with date and time delimiters you wish to use. This does use the NOW statement which is not in older versions.
