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4GL Tools Reference
Empress v8.62 May 2006 (Unix only) |
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This manual describes Empress 4GL tools. These are necessary tools for developing a 4GL application.
| 1.1 | Empress 4GL and Empress | |
| 1.2 | Invoking Empress 4GL | |
| 1.3 | The Main Menu |
| 1.3.1 | The Application Manager | ||
| 1.3.2 | The Form Manager | ||
| 1.3.3 | The Application Generator |
| 2.1 | Default Application Generator | |
| 2.2 | Creating the Default Application |
| 3.1 | Introduction | |
| 3.2 | Entering the Application Generator |
| 3.2.1 | Type of Display | ||
| 3.2.2 | Number of Records to Display per Screen | ||
| 3.2.3 | Justify Field Labels |
| 4.1 | Entering the Form Editor | |
| 4.2 | Status Indicators | |
| 4.3 | General Editing Conventions |
| 4.3.1 | Positioning Forms | ||
| 4.3.2 | The Editing Area | ||
| 4.3.3 | Editing the Background | ||
| 4.3.4 | Editing the Foreground |
| 4.4 | Single and Multiple Fields | |
| 4.5 | The Form Editor Commands |
| 4.5.1 | Cursor Movement | ||
| 4.5.2 | Field Commands | ||
| 4.5.3 | Field Editing | ||
| 4.5.4 | Coarse Motion | ||
| 4.5.5 | Creating a Field, Line, Box or Video Region | ||
| 4.5.6 | Editing the Background | ||
| 4.5.7 | General |
| 4.6 | Leaving the Form Editor |
| 5.1 | Conventions of Data Entry | |
| 5.2 | Scrolling and Hidden Data | |
| 5.3 | Data Entry Modes and the <Return> Key | |
| 5.4 | The Field Editor Commands |
| 5.4.1 | Moving | ||
| 5.4.2 | Editing | ||
| 5.4.3 | General |
| 5.5 | Reprogramming the Field Editor |
| 6.1 | General Operation | |
| 6.2 | Entering the Script Editor | |
| 6.3 | Application Scripts |
| 6.3.1 | Global Keys and Links |
| 6.4 | Defining Windows |
| 6.4.1 | Form Name and Form Instances |
| 6.5 | Field Scripts | |
| 6.6 | Key Scripts | |
| 6.7 | Subscripts | |
| 6.8 | Edit Forms | |
| 6.9 | Defining Domains | |
| 6.10 | Compile Application, Link Application, Run Application | |
| 6.11 | Leaving the Script Editor |
| 7.1 | Compiling the Application | |
| 7.2 | Linking the Application |
| 8.1 | The 4GL Executable Builder |
| 9.1 | Introduction |
| 9.1.1 | General Description of Features |
| 9.2 | How to Start the Source Debugger |
| 9.2.1 | Debug Mode | ||
| 9.2.2 | On Errors | ||
| 9.2.3 | <Interrupt> Key | ||
| 9.2.4 | Breakpoints |
| 9.3 | General Functions |
| 9.3.1 | Breakpoints | ||
| 9.3.2 | Window Manipulation |
| 9.4 | Description of Screens |
| 9.4.1 | Status Window (break) | ||
| 9.4.2 | Main Menu (menu) |
| 9.4.2.1 | Quit Function | |||
| 9.4.2.2 | Stack Window (trace) | |||
| 9.4.2.3 | View (view) | |||
| 9.4.2.4 | Lists | |||
| 9.4.2.5 | Step | |||
| 9.4.2.6 | Setup (setup) |
| 9.4.3 | Setting Breakpoints |
| 9.4.3.1 | Set (set) | |||
| 9.4.3.2 | Set Line (set_line) | |||
| 9.4.3.3 | Set Procedure (set_proc) | |||
| 9.4.3.4 | Set Variable (set_var) |