RE: How to create my own built-in functions

Joel Stone wrote using HTML:

>Thanks for the info.  I was looking for info on 
>how to do this and use the created functions 
>IN ANY ILE Program  (Without copying 
>the subprocedure source into the pgm).

Right on!

>So for your example, after creating a 
>srvpgm containing the procedure
>"ShowMsg", how can I invoke the 
>ShowMsg function in other programs?

The "typical" thing to do is to make 3 source members:
 * QPROTOSRC mbr(SHOWMSG) - don't compile
 * Display a message to the user            
                                            
D ShowMsg         pr            10u 0       
D   MsgText                     50    const 
D   MsgQueue                    10    const 

* QRPGLESRC mbr(SHOWMSG) - compile option 15,
*    then CRTSRVPGM
H Nomain                                                              
H debug option(*srcstmt: *nodebugio)                                  
 * dbgview(*list)                                                     
 * CRTSRVPGM SRVPGM(*CURLIB/SHOWMSG)                                  
 *           EXPORT(*ALL)                                             
 *           TEXT('Display message to user')                          
 *           ACTGRP(*CALLER)                                          
                                                                      
 * Display a message to the user                                      
                                                                      
 /copy qprotosrc,showmsg                                              
                                                                      
P ShowMsg         b                   Export                          
D ShowMsg         pi            10u 0                                 
D   MsgText                     50    const                           
D   MsgQueue                    10    const                           
                                                                      
D   rc            s             10u 0                                 
                                                                      
C     MsgText       Dsply     MsgQueue                             99 
                                                                      
C                   If        *In99 = *On                             
C                   Eval      rc = -1                                 
C                   Else            
C                   Eval      rc = 0
C                   EndIf           
                                    
C                   Return    rc    
                                    
P ShowMsg         e    

* QRPGLESRC mbr(DSPLY) - compile option 15,
then CRTPGM
H debug option(*srcstmt: *nodebugio)                      
 * dbgview(*list)                                         
 * CRTPGM PGM(*CURLIB/DSPLY)                              
 *        BNDSRVPGM(*LIBL/SHOWMSG)                        
 *        ACTGRP(QILE)                                    
                                                          
 * Display a message to the user                          
                                                          
D   rc            s             10u 0                     
                                                          
D/copy qprotosrc,showmsg                                  
                                                          
C                   eval      rc = ShowMsg('Test': 'BUCK')
C                   eval      *inLR = *On                 

Now, any place you want to use the ShowMsg function, you include the /copy
and BNDSRVPGM.  Binding source and binding directories can come next
perhaps...

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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