AW: dynamically calling procedure of bound module

Hi Mihael,

I assume you speak German, because your eMail address extender is .de.
If so, you might check the home page of Dieter Bender
(http://www.bender-dv.de/)
Among his freeware he has a tool, to dynamically call procedures.
This tool is based on the APIs QleActBndPgm, QleGetExp.

May be it helps!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
(Les Brown)

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von Knezevic, Mihael
Gesendet: Dienstag, 1. August 2006 14:30
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Betreff: AW: dynamically calling procedure of bound module


yep. thanx for the answer. you are right. i probably should use procedure
pointers and resolved it with passing an array of proc pointers which will
be filled by the procedure of the other module within the same program.

thanx.

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Gesendet: Dienstag, 1. August 2006 14:21
An: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Betreff: Re: dynamically calling procedure of bound module


On 01/08/2006, at 10:03 PM, Knezevic, Mihael wrote:

i have several modules bound into one program. now i want to to call a
procedure. problem is that the name of the procedure is inside a
variable. how can i now call the procedure where the module is bound
into the same program object?

i fiddled with the api Get Export but i can't get it working. is this
even the right method of doing it?

all articles covering this topic try to call a procedure from a service
program. that is not what i want to do.

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do. I can
interpret your statements in two ways:
        1) You want to call a procedure within the current program but you
don't know the name until run-time
        2) You want to call a procedure with a program from another program

GetExport won't work for programs because programs cannot export
procedures.

For 1) you should use procedure pointers rather than the procedure name.

For 2) the system does not directly support calling procedures in a
program object from outside that program object. That's what service
programs are for. I think you can make this work but you'll need to
provide a method of calling the the program to retrieve a procedure
pointer. The invoke the procedure via the pointer.

Hmm, I might play with this tomorrow and see if I can get something
working ...

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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