Kbase 15664: Starting external editors for objects in Roundtable
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
5/10/1998 |
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Starting external editors for objects in Roundtable
DRAFT COPY - Currently under review and edit.
INTRODUCTION:
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This knowledgebase entry describes how to setup Roundtable to use
file associations in MS Windows to start external editors for
different object types.
WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS:
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The Roundtable repository can contain both binary and ascii objects,
which are stored as Code Sub-Types with different extensions. For some
of these objects, it may be desirable to start up a specific
program to edit the object instead of using the Progress Procedure
Editor.
PROCEDURAL APPROACH:
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When defining Code Sub-Types in Roundtable, you have the option of
defining an editor for each of the differnt Code Sub-Types. The
editing program entered here must be a Progress procedure, which
invokes the editor.
The default custom editor for Roundtable is supplied as source code,
but is also compiled during the Roundtable installation. The program
is located in the directory structure containing the compiled code
for the Roundtable client: default is %DLC/GUI/RTB.
Add the following line to the optional editor for each Code Sub-Type:
/dlc/gui/rtb/p/rtb_open.r
This procedure will launch the objects extension to Windows.
ONLINE PROCEDURES OR UTILITIES:
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Roundtable On-Line Help: Appendix B - Interfaces, Edit Program
rtb/p/rtb_open.p
REFERENCES TO WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION:
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Roundtable Manual, Appendix B.3 Edit Program - rtb/p/rtb_open.p
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 15664