Version
7.3 |
Professional
Series WebBuilder
- With Professional
Series WebBuilder, you can rapidly bring
your
Synergy applications to the Web. As an
add-on to Professional Series Workbench,
WebBuilder enables you to create Web front
ends based on your Synergy repository definitions,
and then connect your new Web pages to
your proven Synergy business logic. WebBuilder
is based on Macromedia® Dreamweaver™,
the industry leader in Web page design
and production. Dreamweaver offers many
features that can save time and effort
when designing a site.o Page templates
enable you to maintain a consistent look
and feel throughout your site.
- Site management
helps you synchronize a local site
with a remote (live) site. Styles Palette
provides an easy way to apply styles
to
selected
text.
- History Palette enables you to
replay various editing actions.o Layers
allow
you to lay out your page with precise
positioning of page elements.
- In addition
to Dreamweaver,
WebBuilder has a comprehensive set
of Synergy extensions called Synergy
Objects for Dreamweaver.
With these extensions, WebBuilder
enables you to:
- Generate Web forms
based on the structures and fields
you have defined in your Synergy
repository.
- Reposition
form elements and override individual
attributes (like you can do with
Synergy/DE Composer).
- Update
all repository-based fields in
your form with one command (if
you change your repository).
- Automatically
provide field-level validation
of user input based on your repository
attributes.
- Ability
to switch between WebBuilder
and Workbench:
You can switch between designing
your Web page layout visually
with WebBuilder, and
editing your HTML and client-
or server-side scripting code
(Active Server Pages or
JavaServer Pages) in Workbench.
You can also edit any HTML code
generated by Dreamweaver
in the Workbench editor.
"Synergy/DE
Web" project type
- You can now create a Synergy/DE
Web project that enables you
to organize and manage all files
that are used to construct a
site.
"Launch
Home Page" menu entry and
toolbar button
- When
either is selected, Workbench
launches the defined Web browser,
which opens the URL stored in
the Web project
file.
Easier installation and configuration
- The
new Synergy Configuration Program
makes
it easier for you to configure
your Synergy/DE products (including
License
Manager, xfServer,
xfServerPlus, and SQL Connection)
and to obtain and install product
configuration
keys. With this easy-to-use tool,
you can:
- Change your license
configuration from
server or stand-alone to client
- Change
a client to use a different
license manager
server
- Add a new xfServer or
xfServerPlus service
- Modify
xfServer or xfServerPlus
settings for port, logging,
or security
- Select databases to
be used with
SQL Connection
- Obtain your product
configuration keys
online, or automatically send
a key request via e-mail to Synergex
- Install
your keys
once you receive them
- Synergy
Key Files (.skf) simplify installation
of product
configuration keys. You can now
obtain your product configuration keys
from Synergex in a Synergy
key file
(.skf) and then install all keys
at once on
your system. You can use Synergy
Key Files with
the Synergy Configuration Program
(Windows) and with the "lmu" utility.
- Windows Installer is now
used for our installation program.
Our Windows installation
program now uses Windows Installer
and
takes advantage
of the latest installation
technology to provide you with a
simpler installation
process.
Other enhancements
help you install and manage your
system
- Avoid
mistakes when installing. When
you install your Synergy/DE
products on Windows, the
installation program now prompts
you for "Licensee
name" rather than "Company
name" for
consistency with Synergex's
licensing process.
- Display your licensee
name (for server
and stand-alone license configurations)
or your license server name (for
client configurations) with the
updated "lmu
-b" command.
Enhanced debugging capabilities
- Save
and restore debugger
settings. The new "SAVE
filename" debugger
command enables you to save
the current debugger state
to a file,
including WATCH,
BREAK, and SET commands.
- Track
license logins with the new "-s" option
for the "lmu" utility.
This option displays the License
Manager session and
seat IDs, which can be useful
when tracking license logins
with the DEBUGLOGGING option.
- Trap more errors with the new
$ERR_CATCH
error literal. o $ERR_CATCH enables
a routine to set an ONERROR trap
that will be called
whenever an untrapped error occurs
in a routine lower in the call
tree. This is
especially useful when calling
remote routines with xfServerPlus.
- Retrieve error traceback
information with the new %ERR_TRACEBACK
function: %ERR_TRACEBACK enables
you to control the reporting
of error information
to your users. It is especially
useful with distributed Synergy
applications using
xfServerPlus.
New developer productivity features
- Professional
Series Workbench
enhancements:
- Analyze
the "call
trees" for your routines.
This will help you view the list
of routines called
by a specific routine across
multiple source files. As you
expose Synergy routines to
external applications, this feature
will identify the routines called
by the routine
you want to expose.
- Create
method code for buttons and input
fields in Composer
with new code templates. When
creating a button or input field
in Composer, you
can now select a drilldown button
for the button, display, or edit
format methods.
This will launch Workbench, which
will either take you to the code
for an existing
method or add template code for
a new method to the end of the
method file.
- New
STRUCTURE and FIELD template
tokens make it easier to
generate methods for input
windows. Within a code
template, you can specify the new
#STRUCTURE#
and #FIELD#
tokens, and Workbench will
replace these with references to
actual
structure and
field names when it generates
methods for input windows.
- New commands help you set environment
variables in Workbench
- syn_set sets an environment
variable at the project
level
- o syn_set_global sets
one at the global level
(which gets reset whenever a
project is made active)
- syn_set_synergy_ini
loads the environment
variable
from the
[synergy] section of
the synergy.ini
file
- Reorganized
Synergy/DE menu column
and toolbar provide easier
access
to the
Synergy/DE tools.
We added WebBuilder and
Synergy Online Manuals
to the Synergy/DE
menu column,
and we moved some of
the utilities to a new
Utilities
submenu.
In addition, we
added WebBuilder, Online
Manuals, and the Method
Definition Utility
to the Synergy/DE
toolbar.
- Generate more
UI Toolkit code with new
aliases for common code
segments.
You can
now generate code
for the following UI Toolkit
code
segments: Input
processing loops,
list
load methods, list
double-click methods, list
processing loops, and tab
set methods. You
can also add your own aliases
and/or
customize
or reuse
the
existing aliases.
- Visual
SlickEdit 5. Visual SlickEdit
provides the visual editing
and
project management capabilities
in Workbench. We've upgraded
our SlickEdit to version
5, which provides you
with these additional
features:
- Symbol references
and uses:
Visual SlickEdit
5.0 introduces dynamically
updated references
for Java, C/C++, COBOL, Slick-C,
Ada, Delphi,
and InstallScript.
New functionality
for references includes
a new References
tab on the Output toolbar,
next/previous
reference hot keys, and a
context menu item for querying
references
for the symbol
at the cursor.
- DIFFzilla™ enhancements:
DIFFzilla is
Visual SlickEdit's set of file
differencing
tools. It is
used to merge changes from one
version of a
file to
another or help
you determine what changes
have been made
to a file. You can difference
two
files, two source
trees, or two directories.
DIFFzilla's Diff
dialog supports selecting and
operating on
multiple
files in a directory
tree, as well
as the capability to exclude
entire directories
from a diff. Auto Reload now
provides you
with the option to diff
an open file
with the copy on disk when Visual
SlickEdit detects
that
another application
has modified
the file.
- Project management
enhancements:
You will
enjoy the added
capability of
seamlessly opening a Visual C++
workspace. Multiple
projects
may now
be defined in
a workspace, and projects can
be shared
between other
workspaces. Dependencies may
be defined
between projects
in a single workspace
allowing a more
sophisticated build process.
Another powerful
project management
enhancement is support for projects
with multiple
language
file types. For
example, Context
Tagging now supports a mix of
C/C++ and Assembly
source
files
in the same workspace.
In addition,
relative workspaces and projects
allow you to
easily relocate
your workspace,
project, and source
files.
- FTP
Client: Even more powerful
than before, the FTP
Client
toolbar and
FTP Open tab
allow recursive FTP directory
operations.
You will be
able to upload, download, and
delete
entire directories.
More host support
is
available in
Visual SlickEdit 5.0, including
OS/400,
VM, VOS,
Windows NT,
OS/2, MVS, VMS, Netware, and
MacOS.
- Additional
features:
Visual SlickEdit
5.0 for Windows
is packed with new and advanced
time-saving
features which include
Javadoc Editor
(supports
Java, C,
C++, and Slick-C), HTML and
Javascript
Beautifier,
emulation
for Visual C++, and Print Preview/Schemes.
- Visual SlickEdit
v5.0
also provides
additional
language
support for
PL/I, JCL,
OS/390
Assembler,
and IDL,
as well
as embedded
language
support for
JavaServer.
Other
Synergy/DE
Productivity
enhancements
- Improvements
to Repository's
user interface.
(Windows)
We added
close boxes
and Minimize
and Maximize
buttons
to all
input windows
and lists;
Add, Copy,
and Delete
buttons
to all
lists, where appropriate;
an
Assign
button to the File
Definition
list and
input window;
and
an Attributes
button
to the
Structure Definition
list and
input window.
- Launch
Workbench from Repository's
Method
tab.
(Windows)
You
can
quickly
define
methods for fields
or templates.
Workbench
either
takes you
to
the code
for an
existing method or
adds template
code for
a new method
to the
end of
the method
file.
- New
DDINFO_INGLOBAL symbol
makes
it easier to
access
information
about your
repository.
When using
the Repository
subroutine
library,
you can
now
include
ddinfo.def
in your
global
data
sections
by
preceding
the include
statement
with
the new
DDINFO_INGLOBAL
symbol.
(This
will
prevent
the inclusion
of STACK
RECORDs
and STRUCTUREs.)
- Call
DLL
subroutines
on
Unix.
The
new %DLL_CALL
function
calls
a routine
in a
DLL
(or
shared
library)
and gives
you a
choice
of
calling
conventions,
enabling
you to
call
DLLs
on
Unix.
New capabilities for your Synergy applications
Windows features
- ActiveX list API enhancements
give
you more cell-level control. You can
now:
- Set color and font for all
cells or per cell
- Set column width
- Specify
visibility of scroll bars
- Set
font for header and footer
- Set
column for visible display
- Get
notification of change in origin of display
- Get
notification of click on column
line, header, and footer section
- Set
and retrieve paper source for a printer
with the
new
subfunction DWP_PAPERSOURCE for
the
%WPR_SETDEVICE and
%WPR_GETDEVICE Windows printing
functions. (For example,
upper tray,
lower tray, etc.)
- Control whether
window borders
are turned off. Use the new WPO_KEEPBRDR
subfunction
to
WP_OPTION to prevent window borders
from being turned off
due to the size of the window. Use
WPO_HIDEBRDR
to
restore the default behavior.
Use the
new KEEP_BORDER environment variable
to cause the WPO_KEEPBRDR
setting
to be used initially.
Cross-platform
features
- Display and process pop-up
menus.
New %M_POPUP function allows
you to pop up
a menu anywhere on the screen.
- Override or add to
UI Toolkit's functionality
when displaying your
data or formatting your editable data.
Use two new
input field
methods, %IDISPLAY_METHOD and
%IEDITFMT_METHOD, when
you
want to display data differently
from how Toolkit will display
it,
or
when you want to format editable
data differently from how
Toolkit will format it.
- Modify UI Toolkit
prompt and field
positions at runtime with
two new I_FLDMOD qualifiers: D_FLD_POS
for the prompt position
and D_FLD_FPOS for the field
position.
- Turn your lists'
borders and/or drag bars on
or
off. A new routine, L_BORDER,
enables you to turn
the border and/or drag
bar
(caption
bar) on
or off for an ActiveX
or UI Toolkit list.o
Suppress automatic resizing of your lists.
(Windows) Specify the
new
.LISTCLASS
option
NOAUTOSIZE to prevent the size of a
list from being affected
by the size of its container.
When NOAUTOSIZE is active,
the
list can only be resized by L_RESIZE.
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Version
7.1 |
Professional
Series Workbench
- A new integrated
development environment
for Synergy developers, Workbench includes
a Synergy Language-sensitive visual
editor, access to all the Synergy development
tools
from an integrated launch pad, and
several project management tools. Based
on Visual
SlickEdit™, Workbench features
include:
- Context Tagging™:
Workbench generates tags and cross-references
for all main routines,
functions, and subroutines, taking you
directly to the source for these
code
blocks between
files or across source trees with the
simple click of a mouse.
- DIFFzilla™:
The DIFFzilla file-differencing
tools help
you merge changes from one version of
a file
to another, or isolate the changes you’ve
made to your files. Using the DIFFzilla™ dialog
box, you can locate the differences between
files or entire source trees. Dynamic
Difference Editing™ enables you
to edit file versions while comparing
them, uses color
to highlight
to differences, and immediately displays
the color-coded changes.
- FTP support: Visual SlickEdit includes a complete
FTP client,
enabling you to open, edit, and save
files on remote machines beyond a local
area
network. Where FTP access is
available, the editing process is transparent,
occurs in real time, and emulates local
access. This is especially useful for
support and
for remote Web page editing.
- Synergy
Language sensitivity: Catch
misspellings immediately
and reduce compile-time errors! Synergy
Language keywords (such as “xcall”)
are automatically color-coded as
you type. Comments
are distinguished by fully customizable
color and formatting.
- Synergy Language
compiler
integration: Correcting
compile-time errors is greatly simplified.
- When
you compile
and build your Synergy application
in Visual SlickEdit for Synergy/DE,
you can click on
generated errors and immediately
open your code at the source of the
error.
- Also includes
these features:
- Common project
files, shared between Composer
and Workbench's project
manager
- Automatic script
compiling when script or project
files are saved
- Toolbar
integration between S/DE components—all
S/DE components are accessible
with buttons on the Workbench
toolbar
- Variable
and label tag capability
- API
support for Synergy/DE routines,
for listing parameters
associated with Synergy routines
UI Toolkit
Support
added for these cross-platform
features:
- Submenu creation
at runtime
- An external
routine interface to
Script
- Tab separators and renditions
for active and inactive
tabs (for improved
look-and-feel
on cell-based systems)
- Input field renditions, such as underline,
reverse,
italic, bold,
color
- Read-only and
disabled attributes for input
fields
- I_ENABLE and I_DISABLE
enhancements for enabling
or
disabling all fields
in a set or all fields
in a window
- Ranges for date and
time fields
- E_METHOD replacement
routine for USR_ENTRST
- More
input information
to EUSR_xxxfLD
routines
- Up to
20 additional optional arguments
that can be passed
to all list processing routines·
Synergy
Language
Support added for:
- A name space API, for
maintaining
a unique set of text strings (and
ancillary
information),
which can be used to facilitate
searches
and sorts
- Routine
call block
(RCB)
routines, for
optimizing code using defined
memory blocks
that
can be
accessed when
calling a routine repeatedly
Repository
Support
added for:
- Input field renditions
and read-only
and disabled
input field attributes
to support
new UI Toolkit
features
- Synergy
DBMS enhancements
- Enhanced GROUP
support
Windows
Enhancements:
- UI Toolkit:
- Resizable
windows,
plus
minimize, maximize,
and restore
buttons
- Font specification
for footer
and information
line
- Multiple rows of tabs
- Tab
placement
on any
side of
a tab
set
- Ability
to call
I_FLDMOD for modifying
a field’s
attributes
from
within
a method
- Command
buttons
available
in any
window
- Ability to specify
default
button
- ActiveX:
- Support for
design-time and indexed properties
- Composer:
- Ability
to
specify that an input field
is read-only
or
disabled or has renditions
- Code generation
for input field methods
- Installation
- Latest
version of InstallShield®,
the industry standard
installation tool
Registry hooks,
providing developers
with more
control over
displayed Synergy/DE
installation screens
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Version
6.3 |
- User
friendly features on any platform, such
as localization, dynamic menu changes,
and Repository-support
for ODBC field names enable developers
to offer applications that are easier
to use.
- Windows
user interface features, such as ActiveX
API let you easily enhance your Windows
user interface by adding such features
as calculators,
calendars, and data representation charts.
The new ActiveX List Control provides
extended list functionality. Proportional
fonts
and custom cursor support provide the
native Windows look that users require.
The Windows
Print API allows users to take advantage
of Windows print capabilities. Developers
can allow users to use the Enter key
to select
the default button, and add Windows commands
(such as Cut, Copy, and Paste) to menu
columns.
- Productivity
features, such as the debugger “set
watch” function, compiler macro
expansion, and improved Repository user
interface,
enable developers to more easily and
quickly develop
applications. Developers can also generate
irecovr exception files.
- Greater
developer flexibility, such as ability
to implement change methods for fields,
specify
custom fonts for objects, programmatically
disable standard buttons, and save application
window settings
- Additional
Year 2000 support, including methods for
customers who use two-digit years and enhancements
to ReportWriter
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