Uli Merkel The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the UNIFACE 0811 - uli

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Uli Merkel: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the UNIFACE 0811
Uli Merkel
Don't Panic !
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
UNIFACE 0811
Texts may be shortened, but there is always a link to the original article.
1
NEEDFUL LINKS ........................................................................................................................................ 2
1.1
1.2
1.3
2
DITO DO IT OURSELF: WWW.ULI-MERKEL.DE WWW.UNIFACE.INFO.................................... 3
2.1
2.2
3
081130: HOW DO I DEBUG THE UAS (UROUTER) .................................................................................... 8
UNIFACE LISTSERVER ............................................................................................................................ 9
5.1
5.2
5.3
6
081128: PRINTOUT TO CLIENT WITH FORMS RUNNING ON THE SERVER ................................................... 4
081124: XML CPY FROM U9 TO U8........................................................................................................ 4
081124: UNIFACE AND PDF .................................................................................................................... 5
UNIFACE COMMUNITY "UNIFACE.INFO"........................................................................................ 8
4.1
5
081120: DITO-NAVIGATE IDF WITH SHORTCUTS-BASICS ....................................................................... 3
081123: 8.2.02 3GL SAMPLE OWIWRAP............................................................................................... 3
T.U.R.F........................................................................................................................................................... 4
3.1
3.2
3.3
4
THINK BEFORE YOU CODE ..................................................................................................................... 2
AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:........................................................................................................... 2
LEARNING WHILE HAVING FUN:............................................................................................................... 2
081125: PRINTING WITH COLOR IN U9 ..................................................................................................... 9
081120: PRE-DISCLOSING THE BIG CU2008 SURPRISE IN AMSTERDAM ................................................... 9
081124: GETTING THE VALUE OF A WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE FROM WITHIN U8.................. 10
FRONTLINE............................................................................................................................................... 11
6.1
6.2
6.3
081124: PRINTING WITH COLOR ............................................................................................................. 11
081119: UNIFACE USP WEB DEVELOPMENT .......................................................................................... 11
081119: COMPILATION CONSTANT TO DETERMINE FROM WHICH LEVEL IS CODE COMING FROM IN ENTITY
OPERATIONS ....................................................................................................................................................... 12
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1 Needful Links
A collection of Links you may find useful, interesting, funny, strange, ...
1.1 THINK before you Code
1.1.1 http://oracleplsqlprogramming.com/
by Steven Feuerstein (PL/SQL evangelist)
1.1.2 http://www.qcgu.net/about_it.php
OK, it is PL/SQL, but get the message behind the language
1.1.3 http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com
just something to fight the cruel reality
1.2 Agile Software development:
1.2.1 http://www.agilemodeling.com
A lot of valuable documents by Scott W. Ambler with a lot of practicable practices.
Very interesting: http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileDocumentation.htm
1.3 Learning while having Fun:
1.3.1 http://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle_frame.htm (each day another puzzle)
Recommenden by Steven Feuerstein, will sharpen your eyes for patterns and sets.
1.3.2 http://www.nytimes.com/ref/crosswords/setpuzzle.html
More exercises each day, different levels
-- will be continued --
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2 dITo do IT ourself: www.uli-merkel.de www.uniface.info
DITO do IT ourself
a contribution for the UnifAce Community
2.1 081120: dITo-Navigate IDF with shortcuts-Basics
dITo-Navigate IDF with shortcuts-Basics.pdf (145 KB)
Open or Download
fast access to the IDF editors more on dITo on www.uli-merkel.de, discussion forum at
http://reinmeindevelopment.forumup.de
2.2 081123: 8.2.02 3GL sample OWIWRAP
owiwrap.zip (131 KB)
Open or Download
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3 T.U.R.F.
Source: "http://hosted.byjones.net/turf/" T.U.R.F.
3.1 081128: Printout to client with Forms running on the server
http://hosted.byjones.net/turf/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1022
Posted: 28.11.08 13:10
by petemonk
For speed, our application runs frms as reports on the server. Thus the output
ends up on the server. We then manually transfer the output back to the client
using FTP. Is there any other way where we could get this output back to the
client without using FTP... maybe an assignment or something?
Posted: 29.11.08 09:52
by Uli
with the ASN, you can access files over the $NET.
So if the server is "aware" of the client (= different ASN for each client)
you may redirect the print-output to a directory on your client.
3.2 081124: XML Cpy from U9 to U8
Posted: 24.11.08 17:46 by Andrea Di Ceglie
I use to copy from an Uniface 8.4 (called A) application to another uniface 8.4
one (Called B), using /CPY and XML file
A -> /cpy DEF:entity.model XML:c:\pippo.xml
B -> /cpy XML:c:\pippo.xml DEF:
Now A is migrated to U92.
Xml file generated from U92 seems to be not compatible with U8, so when i try
to import data into U8 I got a "not well formed XML" error.
Removing the invalid Tag "UNIFACE.DTD", I got another incompatibility error.
"Xml file generated from different Uniface version"
Anyone knows if exists a Map file or a method to Exporting data from U9 into XML
and importing to U8 ?
Posted: 25.11.08 08:37 by Uli
If you have a look at the generated XML files of V8 and V9, you see the
difference.
in V9, they use "XMLengine 2.0". So the UNIFACE.DTD is different in V8 and V9.
I do not have access to a V8 or V9 environment right now, but this may help you:
To load the XML, you have to bring to your V8 environment the V9 DTD (!).
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3.3 081124: Uniface and PDF
Posted: 08.10.08 11:35 by Michel_33
I'am searching the way to generate PDF documents with uniface 7.2
Is someby have an idea ?
Posted: 08.10.08 16:02 by Bignon
Pour votre problème, il faut :
Utiliser un script ( Jscript par exemple) pour transcrire vos documents DOC ou
RTF en Ps ( postcript), les concaténer éventuellement entre eux pour sortir un
fichier txt final. Ensuite utiliser Ghostscript pour transformer le txt final (
concaténé ou pas) en PDF.
Vous pouvez même transformer des fichiers XLS, JPG, BMP concaténés à des
fichiers DOC, RTF pour n'avoir qu'un PDF final.
J'ai développé ça chez un client ... Et ça marche !!!!
Posted: 19.11.08 13:08
by Andrea Di Ceglie
We are Usinge Pdf creator 9.5 via Com interface.
Is free, it works.
Posted: 19.11.08 17:57
by Bignon
M. Andrea Di Ceglie,
Your solution with PdfCreator is interesting and seems more easier than mine.
Could you give me an example and the com signature definitions ?
DOC -> PDF directly ?
We use RTF format, it's ok too.
Posted: 20.11.08 10:45 by Uli
another option is to install a PDF "printer" (like FreePDF) and create a logical
printer for uniface.
This has minimal changes inside the uniface code,
but the freepdf has to be installed on all sites.
One scenario I know prints from a server machine and distributes PDFs (via eMail
etc).
Posted: 21.11.08 10:26
by Firesong
We take the very long way around and use Crystal Reports to generate all our
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documents, as the display is more controllable than Uniface, and we talk to
Crystal directly via com.
Posted: 24.11.08 17:37
by Andrea Di Ceglie
Pdf Signature has a very long definition.
You can loadit doing so:
1)Install Pdf creator >=9.5 (with MsVista >= 9.6)
Define new signature ->Implementation -> COM -> Properties ->ProgId=
PDFCreator.clsPDFCreator
Press Generate new Signature
Save and Compile
2) Define a LogicalPrinter Called "PDF" pointing to PDF_CREATOR physical printer
(for U9 I deploy it using a .reg file)
This is a sample of proc Code to enable silent, autosave file to a certain directory
(C:\) using $formTitle.pdf ad file Name.
v_pdfh=gf_instance_std("PDFCREATOR_STD","randominame=1","")
v_pdfh->CSTART("","","")
v_pdfh->SET_COPTION("AUTOSAVEDIRECTORY","c:\")
v_pdfh->SET_COPTION("AUTOSAVEFILENAME","<Title>")
v_pdfh->SET_COPTION("AUTOSAVEFORMAT","0")
v_pdfh->SET_COPTION("USEAUTOSAVE","1")
v_pdfh->SET_COPTION("USEAUTOSAVEDIRECTORY","1")
v_pdfh->CSAVEOPTIONS("")
print "PDF","C"
.Reg File For U9 (Just save it as PDF_STD_9.reg then double click it)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Compuware\Uniface\USYS9\PRT_PDF_STD]
"DEVMODE"=hex:50,00,44,00,46,00,43,00,72,00,65,00,61,00,74,00,6f,00,72,00,00
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4 UNIFACE community "UNIFACE.info"
Source: " http://www.communityzero.com/uniface" aka "uniface.info"
4.1 081130: How do I debug the UAS (Urouter)
Posted by: kiskogl Nov-30-2008 2:23 PM
I'm using som services in uniface via UAS. Does anyone here now how to set ut
the config to let me debug the server process?
From: -GHANReply to: kiskogl [ Message 1 ]
in order to debug the URouter you need to raise the IOPRINT setting in your
urouter.asn:
----8<-----------------[SETTINGS]
$putmess_logfile = C:\USYS9\log\urouter.log
$ioprint=255
----8<-----------------This could look like the above. Simply state $IOPRINT=255 (or whatever Loglevel
is desired- see Uniface Help for the details) and define WHERE the logfile has to
be saved ($putmess_logfile).
After every change restart the urouter and look at the logfile. If this is clean,
then change over to the SERVICE Log (i.e. wasv).
Do the same in there and keep an eye upon how much is logged.
several cases:
1) UROUTER.LOG is written, contains no complains
==> OK, fine, next look at the service-logfile (WASV whatever)
1.1) WASV.LOG is written, looks good!
==> STOP reading further :)
1.2) WASV.LOG is NOT written, crap!
==> seems to be a UROUTER-CAN'T/WON'T-START USERVER.EXE ... look at the
assignments (ASN-files aswell as the Tomcat stuff)! After that restart the
uROUTER service and start over!
2) UROUTER.LOG is written, some mess is stated
==> Fix that, and afterwards restart services and GOTO "several cases"
... basicly this is it! maybe this is helpfull for you!
Be aware of the user (for userver, look at the tomcat web.xml and related stuff)
has the fitting rights on the machine!
Good luck to you
-GHAN(... Has Another Name - NOT!)
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5 UNIFACE Listserver
Source: " http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=de&lr=&group=comp.soft-sys.app-builder.uniface"
5.1 081125: printing with color in U9
Von: "Francois Moritz" <[email protected]>
Datum: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:26:08 +0100
Betreff: Re: [Uniface-L] Re: printing with color in U9
Hi Uli
You thought like me.
But the documentation says forecolor/backcolor should be printed.
I just created a call by Compuware.
So as soon I get an answer I'll put it to the userGroup.
Thanks to all
:->
regards
Francois Moritz
ITS Management
Hewitt Associates
Tel +41 32 732 31 11
www.hewitt.com
"Ulrich Merkel" <[email protected]>
Hi Francois,
for me it looks like the "print" is not handled by the widget (with access to all the widget properties) but simply
by uniface where only the unifield properties (just like
col=nn) are available.
So whenever you change forground/background of the widget specify a matching $fieldvideo.
Success, Uli
5.2 081120: pre-disclosing the big CU2008 surprise in Amsterdam
Datum:
20.11.08 12:23:15
Hi Freaks
UnifAce 9.3 is GA :-)
But Compuware didn't tell us :-(
So if you wan't to test 9.3 ask your local store to send you the
UnifAce 9.3 CD.
Documentation is avalible on Frontline and there is already a Patch
PO01 for UF93.
Just a advice:
Don't install UF93 in your production-environment but rather install
a test-environment.
Background: There is a huge change in the "resource localization" and
this have impact on your programming and deployment. URR, DOL and
other things now in UAR-Files and one have to declare this resources
in the ASN-file
As I did only a short test, it could be that under default conditions
there is an easier way to do so, but we do have a little tricky
installation :-))
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BTW: There is a new function $labelproperty. Now one can change (some)
labels at runtime.
Ingo
5.3 081124: Getting the value of a Windows environment variable from
within U8
Von: "Dave Willford" <[email protected]>
Datum: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:11:15 -0600
Betreff: [Uniface-L] Getting the value of a Windows environment variable from within U8
We are using Uniface 8.4.06 on running on Windows clients and have a need to get the value of an environment
variable that is SET on the workstation. Does anyone have a slick way of doing this other than creating a .pif
and calling out to DOS?
Example, I would like to know if this environment variable is set in the OS and if so what the value is:
ALLUSERSPROFILE
Thanks,
Dave Willford
Integration Analyst
Information Technology Services
Office of the Chancellor
Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
Bemidji, MN USA
651 201 1474
Hi Dave
Try to use signature:
Create a signature (say KERNEL32 Implementation C DLL Name Kernel32)
Create an operation GETENVIRONMENTVARIABLE; Literal Name
GetEnvironmentVariableA; Return Value in $status (long)
Params: NAME INOUT String, BUFFER INOUT String, SIZE INOUT Numeric
(long)
Compile it and use it as above:
variables
Handle lv_kernel32
string lv_buffer,lv_name
numeric lv_size
endvariables
lv_name="ALLUSERSPROFILE"
newinstance "KERNEL32",lv_kernel32
$status=lv_kernel32->GetEnvironmentVariable(lv_name,lv_buffer,lv_size)
in lv_buffer u get your environment variable value.
Hope this help.
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6 Frontline
Source: "http://forums.compuware.com/forum" (frontline login required)
6.1 081124: printing with color
original version of this page can be found at : http://forums.compuware.com/forum/default.aspx?f=41&m=13651
Posted By : hewitt - 11/24/2008 3:14 PM
..Hello
we are facing a problem I 've not found any solution nor workaround.
We 'd like to print a report or form where some fields are colorised.
I tempt to set a color with a specific layout with col(nn) or by proc through the color of the widgets
(forecolor/backcolor).
Both tests have not reached my goal. It still prints in black and white (onto a colorprinter of course)
I temps to examine if it'd be due to a windows issues, it seems not.
If I print onto a PDFconverter printer, the pdf does not contain any colorised fields.
I tempt to adapt the PRATT as the documentation says.
> Define/Edit Print Job Model
> Print using colors—prints the Background Color and Foreground Color of a widget if they are defined. Other
wise, the Print black on white option is used.
But nothing has been changed. The print is still black and white.
So my question is :
To print a field with his defined color what have I to do ?
We are using P_MSWINX or a derived of it.
printman
/queue=logicalPrinter.
Thanks in advance to give ideas or advices
6.2 081119: Uniface USP web development
Posted By : manifom - 11/19/2008 1:50 PM
I use Uniface web development since 1998 (Uniface web enabler times...) and now i'm migrating my app from 8.4
to 9.2.
This operation was smooth from 7 to 8, but in 9 the new server page layout editor not only is a pain to use, but the
overall new way of managing the usp structure is very dangerous for the stability of the application.
If I simply re-compile the USP, nearly no problem, but if I do some modification (using the new editor... :-( ), in
many cases I get the component structure broken (labels disappeared ecc.)
Now I'm very very concerned about the direction Uniface is going. Not only for the problem itself, but because is a
symptom of confusion about the way decisions are taken.
I need to migrate some installation to Uniface 9, but in this situation the risk is to have an application not yet
modificable..
Posted By : Merkel34 - 11/20/2008 10:11 AM
in www.communityzero.com/uniface there is a discussion about "stable USP editor" with a lot of info about
comming-up enhancements on that matter.
Posted By : manifom - 11/20/2008 3:34 PM
Thank you Uli,
I have just read the topic, but is all about uniface 9.4.
It will be announced at CU2 in december, will be in GA after a while, and then...
1: wait some months to reach a stable version (6 to 12)
2: wait for some 3rd party release specifics drivers (in my case UD6 from March-Hare)
3:...
unfortunately I have the problem right now, and the customer is waiting...
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6.3 081119: compilation constant to determine from which level is
code coming from in entity operations
Posted By : incadrv - 11/5/2008 4:29 PM
I use collection and occurence operations on entities. Standart operations are added by #include proc on begining of
SuperType triggers.
They can be overriden on supertype,subtypes or component level.
Using this #include proc on level of subtype or component is can cause error in inheritance
Is there any compilation constant to determine, from which level is the code coming from ?
#define in #include has only local scope
<$componetname> are allready defined when I compile form
Thanks Vojta
Unfortunately, uniface does not support info about the inheritance.
what about the following option
#define codelevel = default
#include mycodeblock
#undefine codelevel
so when you change this on a local trigger, just change codelevel as well
#define codelevel = local
#include mylocalcodeblock
#undefine codelevel
Success, Uli
Posted By : incadrv - 11/7/2008 12:49 PM
Thank you, the bad messege is message to :(
Conceptual OccurenceOperationsTrigger
;; default operations of entity
;; #include contains partner operation
;; for example write with basic acces and logging functionality
#include system_library:OperOccDef
;; on the next lines user can override operations from system_library:OperOccDef
partner operation write
...
end
LOCAL OccurenceOperationsTrigger
;;It must be redefined and cannot use #include system_library:OperOccDef once more
#include system_library:OperOccDef
;;!! error .. operation was overriden back to default code
the "trick" is to put ALL the conceptual trigger in a single include file and #include this one in the local trigger
I use some precompiler constants like <$componentname> and <$entname> for naming the includes
P.S. see my article on T.U.R.F.; hosted.byjones.net/turf/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=883&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
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