April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
12h 37m
English
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AppForge Driver Application
In this section, we show you how to integrate the DBSLibFuser into a simple AppForge application to create a database and to populate a grid view control with the results. This application is similar to our driver application.
The main screen for the AppForge AFLibDriver application is shown in Figure 8-5, and appears similar to the DBSLib driver application.
Figure 8-5. AFLibDriver application
The main screen consists of three buttons. GetAPI
retrieves the API version of the library by passing the
dbsFuserAppLaunchGetAPI launch code to our fuser.
CreateDB creates the database and retrieves its
metadata (name, number of records, schema, etc.) by passing the
dbsFuserAppLaunchCreateDB launch code.
ViewData does not use the fuser at all. When this
button is clicked, we format an AppForge schema for the database,
retrieve the records from the database, and display them in a grid
view control, as shown in Figure 8-6.
Figure 8-6. AFLibDriver grid view
Fuser Data Types
In order to call into the fuser, we use the following commands, or launch codes.
Public Const cmdGetAPI As Long = 32767 Public Const cmdCreateDB As Long = 32768
We use the following type for marshaling data with the cmdCreateDB command. Each item corresponds to those listed in Table 8-7. We pass the ...
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