Recent content by dreed

I'd like to automate the generation of reports, except for the UI (for report options). Is anyone aware of some code or framework that uses dynamic buffers and queries to build the results in a temp table, and a second piece that takes those results and outputs them into dynamic frames? We...

Cool solution by the way! It never even occurred to me that something like that would work. It required some tweaking, but I did get it to work. The "index" function can search only 32767 bytes, so right off the bat I had to use the "delete-line()" method to delete lines in the editor until...

I am trying to view the CVS version of r-code. In the source code I define a variable, that is auto-expanded by CVS. For example: def var cvs{&sequence} as char no-undo init "$Id: ds-clog1.p,v 1.7 2005/08/15 14:12:57 dan Exp $". And when I look at the r-code with a text editior, I can see...

HOORAAY! Thanks much!

Search tool I agree that the search tool is very poorly done. I've wasted many hours scrolling though pages of search results looking for answers, and sometimes I find them, but sometimes I give up. The reason I started coming here instead of the PEG, was because of the search feature. Now...

Joey, thanks again for the input. I will use your overview to try to explain the OOP model using Progress. The owner doesn't understand OOP yet, but I told him to read this: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/concepts/ As for me, I have already used SmartObjects -- even before they...

I wonder how "true" their OO feature will really be. I've heard people from Progress claim to have OOP for such a long time, and the stuff they have is really cumbersome, and definitely not true OOP -- I just have to wonder if it's worth investing a development effort in Progress tools and...

Joey thanks for the response. To answer your question -- mother or fellow developer -- sort of a cross between the two. The owner is a 66 yr old self-taught programmer who had used the 4GL for about 10 years, and although we're using Progress 9.1E, he's never used Persistent procedures or...

I work for a small software company and I'm trying to teach the owner about persistent procedures, event-driven programming, and OOP. Is there any sample code or a good tutorial available? Also, since most business database applications share similar functions within the GUI, are there any...