Visual Objects –
Software Developers Kit The Software Developers Kit is
considered by many to be an absolute “must have”. Containing all of the source
code for the classes, it shows how they work and gives you, the developer, a chance to
debug right inside of them when something is not going as you would expect. Not only that
but, it also shows how the Visual Objects IDE works and, by following the samples
provided, it gives you the chance to integrate extensions right inside the package. Many
of the Third-Party Products below were written using this information and are clear
examples of how valuable this information is.
One major change in this version of
the SDK is that the old ‘Project Directory’ is not installed. Instead, each of
the libraries are provided as .Aef files in the ..\Cavo26\Source directory. This has been
done so that they can be imported wherever you want them and you need only have the ones
that you want, plus their dependants of course.
Third Party Products! We
hope you find a lot of value in the 14 Third-Party Products that are included in this
release of Visual Objects 2.6. Each of these products represents thousand of
man-hours, by authors that have a particular expertise in their chosen area of software
development. We urge you to explore the possibilities that these add-on products will
provide you. To help you see the value that these products bring, here is a short
description of each of them, listed in alphabetical order. Each has its own install within
its own directory on your Visual Objects CD ROM.
bBrowser Standard 1.4 The bBrowser Standard 1.4 (Limited) is
a fast and flexible data browser and can be connected with a DBServer, an ArrayServer,
which is also provided in the bBrowser library, or any other data server, so long as it
supports specific access and method routines. Because the bBrowser is inherited from the
VO class CustomControl, it can be integrated into any window class like DataWindow,
DataDialog, DialogWindow and so on. The bBrowser can be configured in many diverse ways so
as to provide the appearance and behavior that is required.
Columbo Columbo -- The VO Code &
Repository Inspector -- is a tool for analyzing, viewing and printing source code. It's
written in VO and can be called from within VO's IDE or as an external program. Beyond
that, Columbo can be considered as an extensive example for a lot of programming
techniques -- dealing with SplitWindows, ListView and TreeView controls, RichEdit
controls, printing using HTML files, with a lot of menu and bitmap techniques and much
more, including of course, classes for reading the repository. Source code and
documentation is included. Columbo is written by Ivo Wessel.
COM-SDK COM-SDK---The COMSDK provides an easy
implementation of COM clients that need to implement events. Using the COMSDK's
'TS_DelegateIDispatch' class is done in a similar way as using the standard VO
'OLEAutoObject' class. The biggest benefit is in the easy way to implement events. It also
includes a good starting point for the integration of Outlook in your applications. Being
totally written in native VO code, the COMSDK can also be a great learning tool for all
that need/want to know more about COM and its implementation in a programming environment
like VO.
dBALite dBALite--dBALite is still a very
powerful and useful tool for creating, viewing, editing and managing DBF files and has all
the essential tools required by a professional developer. Support is provided for Clipper,
dBase, FoxPro, Advantage and Fortress databases. The usual Import and Export functionality
is included with the addition of export to HTML with multi-page output and XML (including
XSL,XSD and DTD files). Databases can be created and there structure modified while
retaining the data. Data can be edited via the browser or with edit controls like a
calendar for dates and a memo editor for memo fields. There is an ArrayEditor for memo
fields that support arrays. The usual Index Searching is complemented with a fast text
search function that allows searching for data in any or selected fields and also can do
searches of records in a scope. Filter setting is done using an Expression Builder that is
also used to build expressions for indexes and For or While scopes. There is an Index
Manager that can reindex and rebuild index orders. There are many other tools including
DBReplace, DBTotals, DBSort and DBCalc which allows you to do calculations using user
defined expressions. dBALite is a quality program that you will come to depend on as many
users of dBAdministrator already do.
Fortress Client/Server for
Visual Objects Fortress is a High
Speed Database Engine: Taking the award winning Comix RDD with its proven performance and
reliability and fully integrating the speed and functionality into
Fortress Xbase Server has brought many advantages.
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Smaller Is Faster:
Fortress Xbase Server uses FoxPro CDX indexes which provide significant performance
advantages: multiple indexes are in a single file-reducing
the file server handle load; CDX's are 3 to 6 times smaller than NTXs and make efficient
use of memory and disk space.
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Proprietary Caching
Algorithms give you the advantage of single-user caching in a multi-user system. Many
operations are performed with zero
network requests. That's right-absolutely no network traffic! Much of the overhead
associated with indexes and databases is eliminated.
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Advanced Locking
Techniques protect database and index integrity while greatly reducing the number of
conflicts and performance hits inherent to multi-user access.
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Bit Map Query
Optimization: Fortress Xbase Server's bit map query optimization provides performance
advantages which are simply not possible
in Xbase alone-10 to 1000 times faster. Fortress Xbase Server's query
optimization gives you the advantages of SQL access (fast and easy
selection of a set of records and greatly reduced network traffic) in an
easy to use SET FILTER TO Interface.
By
setting our standards for performance higher than simply reducing network traffic,
Fortress Xbase Server provides the best performance possible. You'll have
to try it to believe it!
Graph32/Graph4VO Graphics4VO is an add-on library
providing graphic capabilities for VO GUI classes. Existing programs can be enhanced to
produce graphic images with very little extra code. Graphics4VO comes in two versions of
different function scope.
The basic version Graphics4VObas has a
wide range of graphic display output options. It includes a rich collection of pixel
graphics and graphic primitives to be used in more complex graphic designs. Efficient
coordinate transformation routines and the use of the world coordinate system guarantee
the integrity of the display output under various resolutions and will spare you the
headache of coordinate calculations.
MAILman MAILman Developer's Edition is a
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Issue Management system designed to help you
keep track of your customers, enhancement ideas, bugs and support issues. Improve the
quality of your products and customer service and make the management of your development
processes easier with MAILman DevEd.
ReportPro 2.11 ReportPro is a full-featured banded
report writer that allows you to create custom reports in virtually any format. With
ReportPro, you can retrieve information from a variety of data sources and then sort,
filter, and group the information as needed. ReportPro’s data engine natively
supports FoxPro® 2.5, CA-Clipper®, and dBase® 5 DBF and index file formats. You can
even mix these file formats in the same report. ReportPro 3 ships with a native driver for
the Jasmine® database and the data engine can access hundreds of SQL databases via ODBC.
The data engine can handle arbitrarily complex table relationships including parent,
child, grandchild, and great-grandchild relationships. You can even define circular
relationships; a table can be related back into itself. Tables and relationships are
managed graphically making complex queries easy to understand. After you have specified
and configured your data source, the process of creating a report is the same regardless
of which data source(s) is used. ReportPro’s design interface is event driven and
user centric making it easy to customize the report until the output looks just the way
you like. Reports are created by drawing objects in the report design window. ReportPro
supports line, rectangle, ellipse, text, field, image, graph, and embedded section
objects. Report objects can be customized with borders, shading, colors, fonts, and
shadows to create professional looking reports. Because ReportPro is a banded report
writer, it provides incredible flexibility for formatting and grouping information.
ReportPro provides a series of bands that allow you to control where and when information
gets printed on your report ReportPro also supports sections. Sections are essentially
sub-reports that print within the context of the main report. Each section contains its
own set of bands and report objects. ReportPro supports three (3) different report types:
standard listing reports, columnar/label reports and cross-tab reports. Each report has a
dedicated wizard that allows you to easily specify the information necessary to create a
report.
TAGIT <TagIT> is the premiere HTML
library for CA-Visual Objects. <TagIT> allows your CA-Visual Objects applications to
dynamically generate HTML output that will astound your users and complement your
application.
<TagIT> is written entirely in
CA-Visual Objects and allows the developer to leverage the existing Internet Classes to
create client-side applications using simple and intuitive code. These classes provide the
missing component in the Computer Associates Internet Classes. With <TagIT> the
immense object oriented application development and database management power of CA-Visual
Objects is available to web application developers. <TagIT> allows the creation of
robust and fully customizable web based applications.
Partial Feature List
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Support for
traditional CGI Applications compatible with Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS),
WebSite Server from O'Reilly and Associates and many others
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Full HTML tag
generation including headings, bars, intuitive anchor centering and other formatting tags.
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Creation and
Retrieval of HTTP Cookies
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Creation of
Dynamic Tables with full control over content and formatting
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HTML Form
creation and processing
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Written
entirely in CA-Visual Objects
VO Productivity Pack The VO Productivity Pack, VOPP, is a vast collection of tools,
utilities,and extensions to the Visual Object Integrated Development Environment that make
software development faster, easier and safer. VOPP includes System Builder, AutoExport,
AutoType, Export Explorer, Global Search and Replace, Tip of the Day, Import and Export
Assistants, and much, much more.
The standard version of VOPP included with VO2.6 gives you
these great features
Export Explorer (View contents of AEF/MEF without loading
them into VO;
AEF/MEF contents can be exported as PRG, HTML, RTF, MEF;
Window entities in
AEF/MEF can be displayed in "test mode"). VO
Source Editor Extensions.
Export Assistant. Customisable DBF Utility. Application
Usage Report.
Updated Entity List. Reset App Debug Status. Export File to
PRG.
Customisation for numerous VO and VOPP settings. VOPP Tip
of the Day (over
150 tips on using VO and add-on products).
VO2ADO VO2Ado is a Class Library that allows
VO developers to access Client/Server databases through the ADO/OleDb interface layer. It
consists of a set of wrapper classes that map the ADO object model and a set of DataServer
subclasses that allows you to use ADO result sets in combination with DataWindows,
DataBrowsers etc. It also has an ADO Connection and Server Editor for the VO IDE that
generates the source code and binary entities, so you can use ADO Servers inside the VO
Window Editor.
VOCOM 2.6 VOCOM2.6 is written by Rod da Silva of
Software Perspectives and provides a professional object-oriented interface to COM/ActiveX
technologies from within your VO applications. It includes an integrated IDE wizard
that makes creating full-blown COM/ActiveX server components automatic. The product
comes with samples, tutorials and documentation to help you get up and running quickly
with COM/ActiveX in the VO environment. VOCOM 2.6 is a VO 2.6 compiled version of
the standard VOCOM 2.0 product (with all current patches) that was originally released in
September of 1997 and that has been used by 100s of VO developers worldwide ever
since. For information about VOCOM+, the professional version of VOCOM that includes
COM+ support, Type Library creation support, 100% VO source code to the product, and an
unlimited, royalty free site license, please contact Rod da Silva
VOScript
VOScript allows scripting capabilities
to be easily added to any CA-Visual Objects 2.x application. Scripting can offer the
ultimate in data driven applications and user defined actions for an application. An
unlimited number of user defined commands (UDC) are supported through a preprocessor code
block which means a custom scripting language can be created for an application. Scripts
can be stored in files with your desired file extensions or stored in memo fields.
VOScript is written in 100% VO and comes with complete source code to both the VOScript
library and the demo application.
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