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How You Can Restore a Field to Display........................................................................... 379How You Can Remove Columns from a Table Field ............................................................ 379How You Can Declare a Composite Field's Array Variable Dynamically ....................................... 380How You Can Declare and Undeclare Data ....................................................................... 380How You Can Change a Dynamic Table Field after Declaring Data ....................................... 381How You Can Manipulate Data in Dynamic Fields.................................................................... 382How You Can Set and Get Simple Field Values.................................................................. 382How You Can Populate a Dynamic Table Field................................................................... 384How You Can Access Individual Cells of a Dynamic Table Field............................................ 385How You Can Manage Operations with a Control Button .......................................................... 389Chapter 15: Creating a Frame at Runtime 391Conceptual Background...................................................................................................... 391How You Can Build a Frame Dynamically .............................................................................. 392How You Can Create the Frame and Set Attributes............................................................ 393How You Can Attach Fields to the Form ........................................................................... 394How You Can Create the Menu....................................................................................... 394How You Can Create the Script ...................................................................................... 395How You Can Create the FrameSource Object .................................................................. 403Close Menu Item.......................................................................................................... 417Dynamic Statements Considerations .................................................................................... 418How You Can Populate a FlexibleForm, StackField, or MatrixField Dynamically....................... 418Chapter 16: Writing a Template Assistant 419Conceptual Overview ......................................................................................................... 419Assistants ................................................................................................................... 419How You Can Attach an Assistant to a Template ............................................................... 419How You Can Ensure Compatibility Between a Frame Assistant and ApplyTemplate................ 419How You Can Write an Assistant .......................................................................................... 420Example—Frame Template Assistant............................................................................... 421Example—Field Template Assistant................................................................................. 423How You Can Ensure Compatibility Between the Assistant and ApplyTemplate ............................ 425How the Frame Creation Process Works .......................................................................... 425How You Can Use ApplyTemplate on a Frame................................................................... 426How the Field Creation Process Works............................................................................. 428How You Can Use ApplyTemplate on a Field ..................................................................... 428Example—ApplyTemplate Compatibility ........................................................................... 428x <strong>Programming</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>
Chapter 17: Preprocessing Your 4GL Code 433Preprocessor..................................................................................................................... 433Include Scripts ............................................................................................................ 434User-defined Macro Variables......................................................................................... 435Built-in Macro Variables ................................................................................................ 436The #define Statement................................................................................................. 437The #undef Statement ................................................................................................. 438The #if - #endif Statement ........................................................................................... 438The #ifdef – #endif Statement....................................................................................... 439The #ifndef - #endif Statement ..................................................................................... 439Error Processing................................................................................................................ 439Example—Error Processing ............................................................................................ 440Chapter 18: Debugging Your Application 441How You Can Use the Debugger .......................................................................................... 441Start and Stop the Debugger .............................................................................................. 442How You Can Test an Application ......................................................................................... 443Debug a Single Application ............................................................................................ 443Debug Multiple Applications........................................................................................... 443How Running in the Debugger Environment Works ................................................................. 444Frame States .............................................................................................................. 444Transactions ............................................................................................................... 444Errors ........................................................................................................................ 444Application Threads and Thread Identifiers ...................................................................... 444Synchronization of Concurrent Threads ........................................................................... 445How You Can Use Break Conditions...................................................................................... 445Debug Tab .................................................................................................................. 446Break Conditions.......................................................................................................... 446Source Breakpoints ...................................................................................................... 448Event Break Conditions................................................................................................. 450Error Break Conditions.................................................................................................. 452Call Break Conditions.................................................................................................... 454Method Invocation Break Conditions ............................................................................... 455Thread Start Breakpoints .............................................................................................. 455How You Can Log Trace Information..................................................................................... 456Trace Log Porlet .......................................................................................................... 458How You Can Monitor a Running Application .......................................................................... 459Current Thread Display ................................................................................................. 459Thread Map................................................................................................................. 459Call Stack Window ....................................................................................................... 460Event Queue Window ................................................................................................... 462Contents xi
Page 1 and 2: Ingres OpenROAD ® 2006Programming
Page 3 and 4: ContentsChapter 1: Introduction 13I
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Chapter 3: Writing Scripts and Proc
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ScriptsDeclare local variables that
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ScriptsExample—Field and Menu Ite
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ProceduresOpenROAD lets you create
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ProceduresReturning from a Procedur
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How You Can Invoke FramesThe syntax
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InheritanceYou can specify a user c
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Handling Database ErrorsIn OpenROAD
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Table FieldsTable Fields and Associ
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Table Field OperationsTable Field C
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CollectionsCollectionsA collection
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Treeview FieldsHow You Can Build a
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Chapter 9: Working with Images and
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examining values • 473hexadecimal
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