I have been using the Stopwatch class (included with the Forte providedFramework project) in order to conduct a performance evaluation for mycurrent project. For example:timer : StopWatch = new();timer.fire();// Code which is to be evaluatedtimer.split(); On numerous occasions, this example ...

While at Forum, I was informed by a Forte representative that Forteprocesses static and dynamic SQL identically "under the hood". It seemsthat Forte processes all SQL statments as dynamic statements withregards to the underlying database. Is this true?Also, can anyone suggest ways to improve ...

Is there a way to pipe the output of a fcompile statement to a filerather than the screen.

Dear Forte Users, I am attempting to understand the current situation with QA/test toolsagain. Does anyone know what Segue's offering is going to provide aboveIQtest and Mercury ?The Segue press release suggests they have the necesary "Fortecompatiblity". Is anybody aware of what this means ? ...

Hi :If there's an FAQ somewhere which answers these (or similar) question,pardon me, and please direct me to it.Q1. When I have a service object with Environment visibility and aTransaction/Session Dialog Duration, how's state information maintained? Is it automatic, or do I have to turn on ...

In his book Object-Oriented Software Metrics (Prentice Hall, 1994), Mark Lorenz in proposes an approach for estimating OO projects. Lorenz recommends the average amount of effort spent on a single class is the best indictor of the amount of work required on a new project. He suggests Smalltalk ...

To all Senior OO/Forte Architects/DevelopersMy firm, Vicon Solutions, Inc. is a lead placement agency for positions thatopened up for senior Object Architects within a major firm in Sacramento,California. They are looking for Senior OO developers/architects.They will immediately train you in ...

To all...I have never done any C Wrappering so please excuse the ignorance of thisquestion.I had always thought of this as a way to get a C function that I had writteninto Forte so that it could be called in Tool code.I was recently presented with another alternative. There is a 3rd party ...

Hi,we are working on a project to build large reports using Forte' printing classes.We use objects like:doc : printDocument,printOptions : printOptionsDescand so on.We know that these classes belong to Display Library and the methods or classes that use them MUST be put on a client partition. ...

Forte 3.0.C.0 on Solaris 2.5I'm looking for the IDL file and IOR file that Forte exports for your IIOPenabled service object. YOu can do this by setting "External Type" toIIOP and providing the names. When you make a distribution, the filesshould be built for the service objects. But where do ...

Hello,Does any one have any experience using Forte's B-tree repositories on aR.2.* release? We would be trying this with R.2.H.2 on an AIX machine.Any comments on stability, performance, or differences noticed betweenB-tree and Gemstone would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,John ...

>If I understand your qualification correctly, without using a product>like Tuxedo, option 2 would give me parallelism of update, but also a >risk of error because the Forte transaction would not control the>commit to the database, even if a single database. Presumably this>would ...

Dear Forte experts:I am part of a team in an large insurance company in charge of developing an enterprise-wide insurnace solution. We have been approached by few vendors, one of which bases its architecture on Forte. We really like what we saw, however, neither the vendor nor us are confident ...

We would like to link into the CRPE32.DLL API from a Forte serverpartition. If Forte is running as a service, i.e., no displayprivileges to console, will CRPE32.DLL work? E.g., willfunctions like PEOpenEngine() fail?-- John Hodgson|Descartes Systems Group Inc.|jhodgson@descartes.comSystems ...

Hi Mike,You don't need to invoke the getDBSession in the SQL calls.Instead you may invoke the getDBSession before the SQL call.e.g. DB_Session : DBSession = getDBSession;Select column1, column2, etc..From TableInto :listwhere condition = valueOn session DB_Session;Hope this helps you.Ravi ...

Within forte, is there a way to display a radio button list without anyof the choices defaulted?Jack RunnelsSoftware EngineerPAGENETjack_runnels@pagenet.comOffice: 972.985.2457Pager: 214.835.9479E-mail page: 2148357243.8359479@pagenet.net ...

We have reached the point where we are trying to compile Windows 95 clientswith Forte 3.0.C.0. Originally, we thought that you could do the actualC++ compilation on a Windows 95 development machine. Now it appears that aWindows NT system must be used to do the actual auto-compile for 32 ...

Hi all,I am part of an application development team which is in the process ofour detail design for our Forte objects. We are working on anapplication which will include a table whose size has been estimated at300K rows by ~30 columns in Oracle 7.3 on Solaris.We have done some initial ...

I have completed my first ever installation of an NT Server with ForteSoftware. The version of Forte being used is Forte V3, C0. Theinstallation set up the starting of my node manager and rpserver whenthe server is started. I now wish to add to the registry, the start upof an additional ...

Hello,I am looking for a way to access date/time information for a file. Am I missing something obvious? I can see that the File object provides 'lots' of information about the file -- but no date info (create time, last mod, etc.). Is there a way to do this without creating an external ...

Hi everyone,Is it posible to startup and shutdown the deployed application thruscript fiels (not from econsole).Thanks for your helpRaju.rkatta@cbsichg.cbsinc.com

Hi,I have used Use-Cases, Object static Diagrams, Object-Interactiondiagrams, State diagrams etc. This some what satisfies the Analysisphase. For elaborate design I must say these diagrams do not give enoughhandle on deployment strategies.We need more INTEGRATED diagramming techniques to ...

Does anyone have a calender application written in forte?ThanksLannetteLannette Ricelannette@albion-intl.com410-549-7297 voice301-607-9493 voice/fax

When drawing a window, you can specify that a givenwindow widget is Invisible. Is there some propertythat can be used to procedurally set a widget suchas a pushbutton to be visible or invisible at run-time?Thank you!

I have now had 26 pieces of mail relevant to the OOAD list; 25 of whichwere some variation on "sign me up". The one dissenter felt that OOADtraffic should appear on this list because it is sometimes difficult toseparate design from implementation, people would post to both listsbecause they ...

Can I have a dynamic SQL which able to have dynamic column name, dynamicbinding variable object, dynamic table name and dynamic where clause e.g.select dynamic_field1, dynamic_field2 ... into :DynamicArrayOfObjectfrom DynamicTableName where DynamicWhereClauseIs that posibble?TQ:) -- My URL ...

Does anyone know of a standard accounting package (AP, GL, IM, AR) developed in Forte' ?John@ncpa.comJohn Sawicky{:-)

We are currently using forte v2h.2 with microsoft sql server 6.5 on NT4.0 machine. Are there any database monitoring tools available out there for this environment(other than sql trace which comes with sql 6.5). I am interested in tools for sql server + any tools availble on forte side to ...

We are working with the beta release 3.0c of Forte and 2.0c of express. We have several DateTime domain fields for which we need to have nulls carried through and updated on the data base. Ideally when the user selects the insert button and the new record is initialized we would like to place ...

The Forte manuals briefly mention the PopupMenu class, but present nothing onits use. Does anyone have any pointers on how to create and work with them?Lee S. Fields

Hi ,In forte framework library I found following implementation:The DataValue class has a attribute TextValue of type TextData. WhileTextData class is sub-class of DataValue. This is a recusrive definationof class.This raises a question, can we have an attribute of a class of typesub-class of ...

Has anyone had any luck returning a code from a server partition?It seems that the following will always return with code 0 (zero), evenif we kill the process.For example,#!/bin/kshftexec -fi bt:/forte/userapp/SomeApp -fnw -ftermReturn=$?echo "Exiting with return code ${Return}"return ...

Hi all,In our application, we would like to make use of Oracle (7.3) functionsto return a success code when the function has completed.Unfortunately, we seem to be stymied in our attempts. We weresuccessful in using a stored procedure, but since it has no return codeit was not much use in this ...

How can we store ImageData in a table and retrieve it back?We have a requirement to store some pictures(from flat files) in aSQL-Server table and load theminto the Window for display in Picture fields. We are using Forte 2.0.H.1 and SQL-Server 6.5 on Windows NT. Any information, examples ...

I have a general question about memory management. Does Forte do any freeing of memory behind the scenes? In code example1 below I create (=new) adata object then I execute a query and if rows were returned I justreturn the data object to the invoking method.However if no rows were returned, a ...

I am having a problem with parts of an SQL statement and I'm out ofideas. Specifically, it is with there 'where =' clause using avariable. If it's relevant, I'm using Forte' 2.0.H.2 on a Windows NTbox. The DB manager is Oracle 7.1.The following statement works:sql select description into ...

Hi, everybody, it is my first question to you all.Does anybody have any function that would capture keypress events, orany information that would be helpful in capturing them? For example,when a user presses the <down arrow> or F1 key. I am currently usingthe AfterValueChange event to ...

If I have this:lPerson : person = new;lPerson.name.setValue('Martin');lPerson.phone.setValue('2762109');lPerson = new;Does this second instantiation create a new copy of "lPerson" in memory? Does it destroy the old? Does it create and destroy in the exact samememory address?-Martin ...

I'm receiving 'Access/Segmentation Violation' errorsin an all-Forte application. Does anybody have experiencewith problems like this?Thank You,Keith

Hi folks,Just wondering if anyone out there has a good example of a splitter bar demo in Forte TOOL.Forte Express Business Modeller implements onebut I'm not aware of an example with source code.I suspect that the way to implement splittersis by using a 1x3 gridfield with the left andright (or ...

I have a file of varying length records of which I read into a binary object using readBinary. I want to parse off pieces a byte at the time using Forte' code. The pieces range from 1 byte to 8 bytes of integer data. I want to extract each desired piece and convert it to its useful form. If I ...

We are trying to use the (undocumented) ExternalConnection class toestablish connections between C programs and a Forte program usingsockets.We have written our own SO to handle the comms, but are hitting aproblem which we now discover also happens with the standard exampleprogram ...

I'm having trouble with Forte not compiling an SQL UPDATE statementcontaining some Boolean data. SQL INSERTing works fine, but when I compile the code below, I get a whole bunch of errors that look like"Unable to bind to TOOL variable 'TypeSet'. This usually means a syntax error.Make sure ...

We'll be deploying our first application into production in the nearfuture and I'ld be interested in any advice you have to offer - horrorstories, successes, what worked, what didn't, what you would dodifferently. Also, any advice on the organization and skill set of thepeople doing ...

I have a Windows DLL that I want to call from Forte, could someone please help me with how I should go about in doing it?Ulrich Lalkulrichl@hq.iscorltd.co.za

Hi Forte-Users,We have a setup a Sql-Server database on a NT server. In the Forte EConsole, we havesetup a ODBC-type Resource for this server, named SERVER2_ODBC.This NT serveris configured as a Client Node in the active Forte environment. Note that Server2 is not the Forte server, but has ...

(436.3 7-23-1997)) id 852564F7.0068E2E0 ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 15:05:38 -0400X-Lotus-FromDomain: WORLDBANK Hi,Is there anyone can give me some help on how to create dynamic widgets? Ineed to build a group of toggle field at runtime and put them in a windowthat is generated by Express. I could not ...

Hello, I need some help. I need to call a C function that will store anarray of characterstrings and then return these strings to FORTE. I have written some C codeand correspondigthe corresponding tool and C pex file code. When I try too call the functionfrom FORTE thecall fails. Could someone ...

I am creating a window that contains a treeview. When I enter the window Iset the current node of the tree view to the first child so that the firstline of the tree is selected. The icon used for the DVSelectedIcon isdisplayed for this node while the DVSmallIcon is displayed for all othernodes. ...

We are currently using DDESERVER framework project to communicate between our Forté application and a Brock Software client one.The Dde channel is used in a rather heavy way and it happens that some 'Get Item' invoked from the Brock application gives nil result back ('null Dde Request ...