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AppBuilder
Developer’s Guide


Running Character Applications

AppBuilder allows you to run character-mode procedures and view them in actual character-mode format. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Start the broker process for all necessary application databases. For example:
  2. PROSERVE sports 
    

  3. Start the Progress session and connect to the application database in multi-user mode.
  4. When you are ready to run your character procedure, choose Layout Alternate Layout from the AppBuilder Main Window.
  5. On the Alternate Layout box, select Standard Character from the Layout combo box.
  6. Choose Compile Run from the Main window.
  7. AppBuilder disables itself and opens the AppBuilder Character Run Window, which starts a Progress Character client session. The Character client first connects to all the databases to which the AppBuilder is connected, then runs your character application.

  8. To return to design mode in AppBuilder, exit the layout in the manner you designed for that layout; for example, by pressing the ESC key in the Character Run Window.
  9. The AppBuilder Character Run Window clears the running layout and displays a status message of “Procedure complete. Waiting for next run.” The AppBuilder enables itself so that you can make further changes to the character layout. Note that the Character client session is still running and remains connected to the application databases, so that you can run the procedure again to test your changes.

  10. To close the Character Run Window, choose Compile Close Character Run Window in the AppBuilder Main window.
  11. The Character client session exits and the Character Run Window closes.

    NOTE: If the Character Run Window does not close, you might have to delete the file that the AppBuilder uses to communicate with the Character Run Window. This file has the form pnnnnnm.tty and is located in the Progress temporary file directory (by default, your current directory). When you delete this file, the character session ends and the Character Run window closes.


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