Re: IBM's VARPG - What can it and cant it do.

["Scott P. Johnson" <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to clear up somethings.  VARPG does deal with WIN32 APIs and DLLs.
Believe me, I have been using them quite extestively on my latest
project.
In it I am using the file APIs to do file management and some other APIs
to 
control a non VARPG pgm.  They work really well.  You just need a good
reference book to look up the WIN32 APIs.

Also, in the latest version of VARPG(v3r2m2), VARPG does support the
use of OCX and ActiveX.  I have dabbled in this area but not much.
VARPG's interface to the OCX and ActiveX is rather interesting.  The 
only bad part I have come across is that the OCX and ActiveX stuff 
must be based in C++ not Visual Basic.  I can find a lot more stuff
written for/in Visual Basic than I can of the other ones.
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Scott P. Johnson
Programmer/Analyst
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 RPG Programmer
Highsmith Inc.
W5527 Hwy 106, PO BOX 800
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538-0800
TEL:  920-563-9571                FAX:  920-563-7395
sjohnson@highsmith.com
www.highsmith.com
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 <Snip>
 >If I had to pick the main advantage of VaRPG, I'd say it's that the
 >programmer does not have to be concerned with the minutiae of memory
 >management.  That's the ticklish part about most of the PC languages. 
It
 >can also use RPG-traditional I/O to the AS400.  The downside is that
it
 >has trouble dealing with common Windows standards: Win32 API, DLL's,
 >OCX's and ActiveX.  Of course, it's getting better at these with every
 >release.
 
 >Buck Calabro
 >Billing Concepts Albany, NY
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