Specifications

Contents

Gallagher & Robertson Glink: API reference manual i

Contents

Contents................................................................................................ i

General ................................................................................................ 1

GlinkApi COM+ component .......................................................................... 1

Glink.Auto OLE Automation.......................................................................... 1

DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange)..................................................................... 1

HLLAPI (High-Level Language API) UVTI (Unified Virtual Terminal

Interface) .........................................................................................................

GlinkApi COM+ component .............................................................

Overview .................................................................................................................... 3

’Fat-client’ (Glink.GlinkApi).................................................................. 4

’Thin-client’ (GlinkApi.GlinkApi)........................................................ 5

Differences between the fat and thin clients ................................................... 6

Differences from the Glink for Java version................................................... 7

Programming techniques................................................................................. 8

Dual-interface, Type Library definition.......................................................... 8

Using GlinkApi with MS Visual Basic........................................................... 9

Using GlinkApi with Borland Delphi ........................................................... 14

Connecting with an existing Glink configuration file ............................. 22

Creating or modifying configuration parameters .................................... 23

Intercepting print data ............................................................................. 23

Glink.GlinkApi summary......................................................................................... 25

Class Summary.............................................................................................. 25

Interface Summary........................................................................................ 25

GlinkApi class .......................................................................................................... 26

Class GlinkApi.............................................................................................. 26

Field Summary.............................................................................................. 27

Method Summary.......................................................................................... 27

Field Detail.................................................................................................... 38

GlinkApi_ASCII_TO_EBCDIC.............................................................. 38

GlinkApi_EBCDIC_TO_ASCII.............................................................. 38

GlinkApi_SCREEN_FORMATTED ...................................................... 38

GlinkApi_SCREEN_UNFORMATTED................................................. 38

GlinkApi_SCREEN_UNFORMATTED_CHAR ................................... 38