Hello All,We have a CRUD application written in Express 2.0 that allows users toenter part numbers and associated information. Our part numbers arestructured as a prefix, alpha, suffix and 'M' or 'P' number variations :1 AB 2 P3 for example. We have provided functionality to allow theuser ...

We are looking at the design of our first CRUD type (Create Read Update Delete) application in Forte.I have searched the archives of this list and found a lot of very useful discussions about the various validation philosphies and implementations.Some people have done this (and so does Express) ...

Hi all,There have been a few discussions on the list about sending fairly straightforward emails from SMTP. Has anyone tried sending attachments?I have a requirement to send quite large attachments ( upto 15Mb ), some of the files will be zipped. Does anyone have any idea how to do this and has ...

Hi,I was wondering if any knows if there is a way to tell if a parentGridField has focus.i.e. I have a grid field that contains 5 other widgets. Is there a way Ican test the gridfield to see if any of its children have focus (withouthaving to loop through all of the children 1 by 1) ...

Hi, Forte-UsersEvery time we start one of our application, we use to have a problem.If we start different Object Service´s Methods, the application locksbecause DBSession Object Service doesn´t answer them.We think that the solution would be to have several DBSession:a)One DBSession ...

Hi All,Either I'm going nuts, or I am incredibly dense today....(could be from last nite's beers.... ;-) )How do I create a TextData object whose value contains embedded quotes?I want the value to be 'CEO', *including* the single quotes...I have tried :var1 : TextData = new();var1.SetValue( ...

When I tried to use the PrintDocument to print a document with 2 pages(cloned userwindows),Forte always print an empty page 2 for me.I've used something like this.....//Open Docdoc.SetWorkingPage(page = clonedWindow1); doc.PrintWorkingPage();doc.SetWorkingPage(page = ...

We are looking for a way to deploy our Forte' applications without usingForte' facilities.Though we would like to be able to use the Launch Server application on theclients (ftcmd run application).If we simply find a way to ftp client partition files, the application isnot "registered", so ...

Hello,doe's someone knows how to test if an attribute is present in a classwith a genric method ?pseudo-code :if exists ATTR_PRESENTATION thendo somethingelsedo somethingend if;Thanks by advance. Cordialement.Patrice BourdonAlliance Sante FranceTel : +33 02.54.60.26.27Fax : +33 ...

We have 2 servers: kronos & vithar. Kronos is our production server, andvithar is used for Forte development.Our production environment is kronos:5080. I want to setup vithar:5080 as afailover environment for it.So...That means I need to assign every server partition to BOTH servers inorder ...

Hi,I use a FrameWork to store objects in a database.It works very well: I can see my objects in Window, I can store objects in database from window ...But there is a little problem: GenericDBMS Forté Library is always supplier of my client partition. I never access database from my ...

Do you know what the number one factor is, that will determine whether your business is asuccess or not? ADVERTISING! Effective conventional advertising is quite expensive. Sowhat do you do? Direct email is one of, if not thee most effective method of advertising in the 90's. You can get your ...

What is the most recent version of Oracle in use with Forte under VMS, andwhat version of Forte are you using with it? We're at Forte 3.0.G.2, butstill at Oracle 7.3.2.3.0, because when we tried 7.3.2.3.2 it wouldn't link(and no, I don't remember the version of Forte - sorry!). Forte ...

Hi!We have Informix 7.30 and Forte 3.0.G.2 on our Sun with Solaris 2.6installed. We have also Informix Connect installed.We think, we need the linkix script to do the onsite linkingmanually, since we do not want to reinstall Forte.If you have the linkix script (and if copyright makes it ...

Hi there folks,I have a couple of questions about Forte.1 - When you integrate a workspace into the repository it takes all the changes you have made in that workspace and 'saves' them to the repository. However, what if you have a workspace which has a half finished project as well as ...

Hi all,I'm looking for a good pattern for retrieving objects from a database.The problem is this, objects have associations with other objects,who in turn have associations with more objects, who have asso-ciations with even more objects. In the end, all instances of mybusiness classes are all ...

Hello,We are currently attempting to use the UNIX ping command to check whether anetwork is alive, but we have noticed that the RunCommand method on theOperatingSystem class has no return status so there is no way that we cantell if the ping command was successful or not.Am I missing something? ...

Hi Forte-User !We got a big problem here using the crystal active-x control. On my windows-nt 4.0 machine (withcrystal reports installed completely) all works well. On our test machine (with only the crystal ActiveXinstalled), the Forte runtime shuts down after invoking a special method of the ...

Hello,Does anybody know of a template that would allow a float valueto be input without needing to fill out extra places with zerosie template ##.#### requires you to type 11000 just to input 1.1Is it possible to set things up so that you can just type 1.1 ie"1" followed by "." followed by ...

I have created a Oracle Stored Procedure which I pass in 3 variables whichare of type number. The procedure then executes multiple Insert into"tablea" Select "fieldnames" from "tablea" where id = old.id(one of thepass var.) The other pass variables are used in the Select statement. Whenthis ...

I'd like to know how different people do source control when using Forte. Of course, simple check-out and check-in can be done by Fame (or an ad hoc method), but tracking changes, configuration management in general, etc., require a tool like PVCS or SourceSafe.I'll be glad to tabulate and ...

Has anyone come up with a good work around to allow Service Objects toreference other service objects in their init methods or during applicationstartup. Since we can't specify the order in which Service Objects start,is there a way we can execute some code once all Service Objects have ...

Does any one know how to run fscript commands directly from Tool code.Better still how to run a script file containing fscript commandsdirectly from Tool code regards,Manish shirke.-To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@sageit.com' with'unsubscribe forte-users' as the body of the ...

I have strange behavior with my replicated partitions. When my applicationstarts up I always get N+1 replicants. For example, if I specify 3replicants, Econsole starts up 4 active partitions.Even more bizzare isthat it also starts up 2 active router partitions... If I manuallyshutdown the extra ...

Can anyone tell me how to bring animation into my Forté window.We tried to bring some animation effect by using Picturefieldattribute with mapped type of ImageData. Then reading frames of thisimage into this widget, in a loop. With Run in standalone, it worksfine but with Run distributed ...

Hello Mark,if you have no newtwork card installed, than install the MS-loopbackdevice. If you installed a network card and this occur anyway, than theressomething wrong at your TCP/IP-settings.Joseph Mirwald-To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@sageit.com' with'unsubscribe forte-users' as the ...

>FromCVSR KrishnaGoldstone Softech Inc.One Tower LaneSuite 1700, Oak Brook Terrace,Illinois – 60181.Hi,I am Facing this Typical Problem when using SQL Server as Backend and using ODBC from Forte. Whenever I retrieve data into an array, if the resultset contains just one row, then from ...

Just to preface ... it's kind of difficult to describe this as a Fortebug, but after the install, it was noticed that the system's global pathwas modified. Specifically"c:\forte\install\bin;c:\forte\objectivity\bin" was appended. One wouldthink that would be fine, but what was observed, is ...

Hi, I have defined projects in my workspace. Is there any way ..i can askForte to generate a documentation template... having project name, classnameits attributes and member functions. If i can get a documentation template then all i need to do is to type indescriptionsfor classes and ...

Hi there,I have problem starting Forte. Whenever I start Forte (StandAlone or Distributed) it is not opening the workspace or whatever (like the environment console, control panel etc.,) . Unless I click on the DOS-Promt icon that appears on the task bar it is not opening. Earlier it was not ...

Hi all,When I map a domain class to a datafield, the field willshow N/A when the domain class has a NULL value. Iwant it to show something else, like 'Empty' or 'Not filledyet' or nothing.How do I do that?Overriding 'FillString' will let me format the value to anystring I want, but ...

Hi there,I'm hoping that someone out there has experienced the following (andknows why it is happening. ) :-)I have a couple of windows on which the AfterValueChange event istriggered on a field upon hitting the delete key.We all know that this should only happen upon leaving the field, ie. ...

I have wrappered this DLL and I can use it without any problems from my machine. However, when I try to install it on a standalone machine, where I import the .pex file to create the library, then put the .dll file I have created in the path that was specified in the .pex file, I run into a ...

Hello,I am currently in the process of wrappering a DLL in Forte. I was wonderingif there are any pitfalls or hazards that I should be aware of?Also, to wrapper a DLL do I need to create a C function that calls the DLLand then wrapper the C function or can I just wrapper the DLL. I am alittle ...

This is a bit of a long shot, but has anyone experience with integratingForte with PI/Open. PI/Open is a variant of PICK. We have a requirementto read and update a PI/Open database from within our Forte application,and we would be most interested to hear from anyone who has experience indoing ...

Hello, I'm trying to integrate Forté with Java in Java mode using IIOP.Ifollowed the steps as explained in the Forté Web enterprise manual.Icompiled the Java files that are generated by Forté along with theclient Java file.The Java applet is getting downloaded on the ...

We have a lot of plans that contain "business objects" that our clientapplications share. I'd like to deploy these plans as TOOL libraries (notcompiled) and then have my deployed applications use them. My question is:How do I access the library?Some possible answers:1) Just include it as a ...

In the "Appearance" tab on the "Display Properties" window within"Display/Control Pannel" there is a color selection widget..... doesthis exist in Forte?Any ideas how to duplicate it? I tried a droplist and used the clickevent to make VISIBLE another grid of fields with colors but the eventaare ...

is there a place in the forte distribution to look at the code thatforte is made with(I believe it is written in Forte?)? I'd like tomimic a feature in the window workshop.-To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@sageit.com' with'unsubscribe forte-users' as the body of the message.Searchable ...

Hi:we're running Client on NT Workstation and one partition on NT Server.I am need to execute a .BAT file on partition that resides on NT Server. Itried using code below but unsuccessfully.agent : NodeAgent =NodeAgent(Task.Part.GetEnvironmentMgr().FindSubAgent('Server ...

Hi,I wanna create dynamic widgets.I can create simple widget, but I have problems to create dynamic ArrayField. (I don't wanna clone existing arrayfield, I wanna create a brand new one)Does someone have already created a dynamic ArrayField ?Should I create a ScrollBar, a BodyGrid and a ...

Hi there,Could somebody please tell me which signals does Forte use to schedule thread-switching on Solaris 2.5? or does Forte catchthe following two signals, SIGSEGV and SIGBUS?Thanks a lot.George-To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@sageit.com' with'unsubscribe forte-users' as the body of the ...

Hi!We use here Forte 3.0.G.2 on a Solaris machine with Informix. How can I tell Forte to use the informix libs when compiling a partitionthat uses informix?Currently I have to compile manually, using command line :fcompile -lflags '-lixos -lixgls'How could I avoid this? Another question is: ...

Hi,I am asking this question on behalf of a friend of mine.He has a Forte application that formats a report layout and prints to aprinter. When the monitor color is set at 256 colors, this report printsout totally black. (It prints properly if the color is set to 16 bit). Thisreport uses about ...

Every few months some of our server applications get the run-time error"De-Serialization mis-match processing object of class (<class_name>)."It seems to have a different cause each time and we spend a lot oftime tracing it down. Is there a logical explanation for this error?Thanks in ...

Hi,I am trying to develop a kind of console to view clients of my application. - Do you know a simple method to get all connected clients of an installed application? (without register each client in an array). - From Econsole, you can send an alert to all connected developpers. Can I send an ...

thanks for the input on the "lost RunCommand"...Now, I need to pass my IP address to the Unix box so the DISPLAY Unixenvironment variable is set properly. How can I get my IP on the NT box at runtime?-To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@sageit.com' with'unsubscribe forte-users' as the body of ...

I have a system administration question for users with NT servers intheir Forte environment. If I have installed Forte partitions on an NTserver which I would like to startup when the server is rebooted, thenwhat are my options for scripting this to happen automatically?Currently the only Forte ...

This may sound a bit harsh. We would like to put a wrapper around about 150COBOL subroutines used for editing medical data. Calling COBOL subroutinesfrom Digital Unix is not exactly trivial, but I was able to write a small Cprogram with entry points (to become Forte methods) for cob_init ...