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Conference marin::forte-ft

Title:Forte' Field Test Conference
Notice:Forte R3 is due in summer...with lots of NEW features
Moderator:MARIN::ARVIND
Created:Wed Aug 04 1993
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:919
Total number of notes:3356

913.0. "Can an external object post events?" by NSIC01::KLERK (Thunderbirds are Go) Sun Apr 13 1997 15:48

 Question:  can an external object (linked to Forte via C/API integration
 or some other means like OLE) post events?

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913.1yes, you can in R3MARIN::SUPPORTTue Apr 29 1997 12:5514
    In R3, you can handle events sent by ActiveX controls.
    
    OLEGEN utility generates an ActiveX interface class for an ActiveX
    control, the utility generates a set of methods that are automatically
    invoked when the ACtiveX control sends an event
    
    These methods have the same names as the events that can be sent by the
    control, except that the Forte events start with an "_".
    
    All of this is documented extensively in the Beta R3 Integrating with
    External Systems manuals
    
    	-steve C.
    
913.2Normally not possible in R2KETJE::GHYOOTReal systems are complex!Wed May 21 1997 02:0511
    In R2, you might try to achieve some event posting cabability through
    DDE hot links (your non-Forte server would then use the DDE link to
    automatically inform your Forte client of anything relevant).
    
    Apart from that, no, you can't normally post events outside of Forte in
    R2...except if you manage to call into a Forte service object, which is
    theorectically possible, but unsupported and undocumented (it takes you
    some fiddling with C++ code, too).
    
    Regards,
    Jean-Michel