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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. The VisPro Conversion Utility ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The VisPro Conversion Utility allows you too easily convert your VX-Rexx
projects to any one of the VisPro products that you select and are installed on
your machine.
For more information, look in help index under Getting started.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Search Path ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Search Path is the starting path for where you want to begin a search for
any VX-Rexx projects. By default, the VisPro Conversion Utility reads the
setting in your CONFIG.SYS to determine where to start.
If you want to specify another search path, you would delete anything within
the Search Path entryfield and replace it with, for example: C:\OS2. Once you
have changed the Search Path, select the Search push button and the Project
Container will show the search results.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Project Container ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Project Container displays a list of VX-Rexx project files (.VRP) that were
located during either the initialization or for a search.
You can double click on a project name, to open the Converting VX-Rexx project
window
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Accept push button ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Accept push button, takes the currently selected project within the Project
Container, and opens the Converting VX-Rexx project window so that you may
begin your conversion.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Search push button ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Search push button gets the contents of the Search Path and locates any
project file (*.VRP) that it can find. Once the search routine has completed
it will display it's result in the Project Container.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Converting VX-Rexx project window ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Converting VX-Rexx project window displays the following items:
-project name that you are converting
-status of the conversion program (IDLE means that no action is being
executed)
-Convert push button which begins the conversion
-Cancel push button closes the Converting VX-Rexx project window
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. Convert push button ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Convert push button will convert the project that is listed within the
Project Name entry field.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. Cancel push button ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Cancel push button, closes the Converting VX-Rexx project window window,
with no action being taken upon the project that is displayed within the
Project name entry field.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9. Project Name entry field ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Project Name entry field displays the project that will be converted when
the Convert push button is clicked.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10. Limitations ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The following are some known limitations that you may run into with the VisPro
Conversion Utility.
-Add on objects. The VisPro Conversion Utility will display a window which
informs you of controls that are not supported when they are encountered. If
one of these controls are encountered, a push button will be displayed in their
place with the add on objects events. Some of these controls are: charts, DDE
client, timer, image radio button, image pushbutton, query editor and
connection.
-Control data. Control data is data that contains, for example, the number of
cells in a value set or the maximum length of an entry field.
-Form styles. The form will always default to a plain window, with no modality
set or information line tips set. To change these in the VisPro products, open
the form->settings and select the styles that you want from the Styles notebook
page.
Note: VX-Rexx sometimes will not write out all of the data for a .VRT file.
If you encounter a problem with the VisPro Conversion Utility, then go back to
your VX project and save the projects windows to .VRT files again
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11. .VRT files ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
A .VRT file, is a plain text file the VX-Rexx writes out to the filename that
you have selected. This file contains all the code for a particular window
which includes objects, menus and sub-procedures. The VisPro Conversion
Utility uses these .VRT files to construct your VisPro project.
Here is how you would create a .VRT file from the project view:
Select the Windows menu item
Select File List
Select the window that you want to save as a .VRT file
From the Files -- Project window, select the File menu
Select Save as Text... (any name is fine, as long as it has the .VRT
extension)
One of the files that should be converted, is the Main file window. In order
to determine which is the Main file window from the project view:
Select the Run menu item
Select Run options
Note: By pressing the F5 key, you will bypass the first two steps in creating
the .VRT file.
Note: VX-Rexx sometimes will not write out all of the data for a .VRT file.
If you encounter a problem with the VisPro Conversion Utility, then go back to
your VX project and save the projects windows to .VRT files again
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 12. Getting started ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The VisPro Conversion Utility is very easy to use. If your projects are
located within the VX-Rexx projects directory, then you press the Accept push
button which opens the Converting VX-Rexx project window. Select the Convert
push button and the VisPro Conversion Utility takes the .VRP filename and
creates a VisPro project with the same name. The converted project, will be
located within the VisPro projects directory depending upon which products you
have selected for conversion.