Forum Post: AW: Which ways are there to trigger events (with code of course) in an Progress...

[Mike Fechner]

OpenEdge 11.5.1 introduced a generic JMS adapter. So you can use JMS provides such as Active MQ to do that. When your client is a GUI client, you can use GUI for .NET and get events raised from the .NET MS-MQ libraries. GUI for .NET allows you to use .NET filesystem watchers that raise an event, once a file is created, updated, deleted, …. Von: Halbmond [mailto:bounce-Halbmond@community.progress.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2015 13:06 An: TU.OE.Development@community.progress.com Betreff: [Technical Users - OE Development] Which ways are there to trigger events (with code of course) in an Progress ABL client from an external program? Which ways are there to trigger events (with code of course) in an Progress ABL client from an external program? Thread created by Halbmond Good day to all, I ain't a progress developer but need to do a conception (and develop the external program) for a solution that triggers events in a progress client. Brief: I have an external measurement device for length of carpets and at specific amounts there shall be an action executed in the progress client. Therefore I need to trigger those actions in the progress client, but only when specific GUI windows are open. As I understood from the "Progress External Program Interfaces" manual, sockets would provide that functionality because I could use the sockets "connect" event to initiate specific actions. My question is: is there another way to do this, means initiate specific actions of the progress client from an external application? Stop receiving emails on this subject. Flag this post as spam/abuse.

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