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Plb-U010.cfm v1.0
- HISTORY of PL/B and Databus
- BASICS of PL/B programming
- MMCC Standards
- Anchoring objects
(as part of split screen discussion)
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API Notes on Windows API calls
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ASCII Good table of codes
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BINARY LOGIC.
-
BUTTONS.
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Base 64 encoding
An article by John Walker, founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD. From Fourmilab Switzerland.
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CALL/CALLS
and Subroutines including ROUTINE, LROUTINE, PROCEDURE, and LOADMOD
- Character Mode Forms
DOS-style, character mode screens
- CLOCK
(Get's lots more than just the time!)
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COLORS
COMBOBOX
DATALIST.DIR method to fill a datalist also works with Combo.
- CONTROLs and Objects
- CPU USAGE
notes and comments
- Cursor Keys
notes on detecting cursor keys, etc.
- Sunbelt's History of Data Access
- DATALIST general topic
DATALIST.DIR method to fill a datalist with file directory
- Distributing programs
& Runtime considerations
- Docking Objects
(as part of split screen discussion)
- DOS
DOS-style, character mode screens
- EditText (RichEditText)
- E-Mail notes
- EXPLODE instruction
- Events
notes on cursor keys, etc.
- Executing programs
What Program to Load 1ST
Comments on executing compiled programs and systems.
- Expressions
such as:
IF ((QUANTITY * POUNDS_EACH) > CART_MAX)
- FILES
Notes on opening files
FILELIST for managing multiple indexes
FINDFILE/FINDDIR for gathering information about a file
DATALIST.DIR method to fill a datalist with file directory
Image File Types
GETFILE
READ
Sunbelt's History of Data Access
- FILE MANAGER
- FLOATMENU and RIGHT CLICK
- FOCUS and VALIDATE
- FONTS
- FTP from PL/B
- GETFILE
- GETINFO
- GETMODE
Lots of good information including names of INI files
- GUI vs Procedural Comments and notes
- ICONS
- INIT / Literals
- IMAGE LIST
- INI FILES
Image File Types
GETMODE INI file names
CLOCK INI data items
PLBWIN License data
- LICENSE
PLBWIN License data
- ListView
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LOADMOD
including ROUTINE, LROUTINE, PROCEDURE, CALL and CALLS
- MENUS
- NUL strings
- OPENING FILES
Notes on opening files
FILELIST for managing multiple indexes
DATALIST.DIR method to fill a datalist with file directory
- O'Reilly Website
Notes on the tests we ran YEARS AGO.
- Panel object (and split screens)
- Percent PROGRESS
- PICTURES
- PRINT SCREEN (Printing a form)
- PRINT
DOS style printing direct to LPTx
- PRTOPEN PDF
PDF built into 9.6
- PRTPAGE
Selecting and opening a printer
*UNITS
*PICT
Printing a screen image
Printers (names, managing, etc.)
- Program Distribution
& Runtime considerations
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RESOURCE lists.
Embed pictures, movies, etc. into your PLC.
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REVDATE
application program version control
- RichEditText (EditText)
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ROUTINE
including ROUTINE, LROUTINE, PROCEDURE, CALL and CALLS
- RUNTIME : PLBWIN runtime considerations
- RUNTIME VERSION See CLOCK VERSION
- RIGHT CLICK and FLOATMENU
- SCREEN HANDLING:
- .SHOW show/hide window
- Manual SCROLL BARS
- Splitter object
- Split Screen Windows
- Print Screen
- See also Window topic
- SOUND FILES
Playing music, etc.
- SQLIO SQL Lite support within PL/B
- STRINGS
- SDB386 and SUNDBCMP
- Subroutines
including ROUTINE, LROUTINE, PROCEDURE, CALL and CALLS
- TAB CONTROL
- Toolbar / Toolbutton
- TreeView
- Transactions
- Program execution
What Program to Load 1ST.
Comments on executing compiled programs and systems.
- Techniques and Comments
getting sample code
multi-line stattext
layered objects
zorder
radio group
UTF-8UFT-8 format
- VALIDATE and FOCUS
- VERSION control
GETMODEprogram & compiler versions
CLOCKrumtime version
- VERTICAL SCROLL BARS (manually coded)
- WINDOW OBJECTs
hiding the window (.SHOW)
controlling position on screen
stretching and shrinking window and all objects
See Screen Handling topic
- Xfiles
X-file notes - SCREEN HANDLING:
plb-t010.cfm
ANSI Standard PL/B Language and Visual PL/B
UTF-8 Format
UTF-8 format support in PL/B
This is a SUNBELT ONLY language feature.
9/27/2011 Herlev in Denmark needed to convert some output to UTF-8 and was wondering how.
>Matthew Lake from Sunbelt replied:
One option would be to use the built in XFILE support. By default, the generated XML is in UTF-8 format. So to convert a string to UTF-8, you can prep a memory XFILE, write the data and use GETFILE to get the content, Then strip the XML.
XF XFILE XF1 XFILE d1 dim 1 UnicodeIn dim 100 UnicodeOut dim 100 string dim 1000 PREP XF,d1,"root" WRITE XF,seq;recrord=XF1 WRITE XF1,seq;Unicode=UnicodeIn GETFILE XF,XMLDATA=string CLOSE XF SCAN "", string BUMP string, seq LENSET string RESET string SCAN "", string BUMP string, 9 MOVE string, UnicodeOut.
(This page is repeated as plb-X010.cfm
Plb-U010.cfm v1.0
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