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

Scott;
        I've authored a set of ActiveX objects which deal in native
AS/400 objects. It is based on Visual Basic since I wrote it in VB6. If
what you say is true and VARPG can reference ActiveX components, then
our ActiveX AS/400 Objects has even a greater value. This means that
VARPG could call additional AS/400 programs and/or run commands. Of
course, I'm assuming that it can't do this already. Although you're not
required to install CA/400 for your VARPG based solutions, do you have
it installed anyways for other reasons?

All;
        Has anyone used IBM's ActiveX CA/400 components? If so, do you
have any educated opinions? Did they work or did they fail?

Ken Slaugh
Senior Programmer/System Analyst
AS/400 Professional Network Administrator/MSE
Specialist - Client Access/400
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott P. Johnson [SMTP:sjohnson@highsmith.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 4:43 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: IBM's VARPG - What can it and cant it do.
> 
> 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.
> --  
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Scott P. Johnson
> Programmer/Analyst
> IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 RPG Programmer
> Highsmith Inc.
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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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