Specifications

Contents
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InfoMaker
CHAPTER 22 Deploying Your Application........................................................ 595
About deploying applications ....................................................... 595
Installing InfoMaker runtime files.................................................. 597
Making the data source available................................................. 599
Installing native database interfaces ..................................... 599
Installing ODBC and system files.......................................... 600
Configuring an ODBC driver.................................................. 600
Deploying SQL Anywhere files.............................................. 602
OLE DB database providers.................................................. 604
JDBC database interface ...................................................... 604
Saving as PDF and XSL-FO ........................................................ 607
Using the Ghostscript distiller................................................ 607
Using the Apache FO processor ........................................... 609
Installing the executable application and supporting files ............ 610
Modifying the application’s initialization file........................... 610
Deploying ActiveX controls.................................................... 610
Starting the deployed application................................................. 611
PART 6 REFERENCE
CHAPTER 23 Operators and Expressions........................................................ 615
Where you use expressions......................................................... 615
Operators used in InfoMaker expressions ................................... 618
Arithmetic operators in InfoMaker expressions ..................... 619
Relational operators in InfoMaker expressions ..................... 619
Logical operators in InfoMaker expressions.......................... 623
Concatenation operator in InfoMaker expressions................ 624
Operator precedence in InfoMaker expressions .......................... 625
Matching text patterns.................................................................. 626
CHAPTER 24 DataWindow Expression and InfoMaker Functions ................. 629
Using DataWindow expression and InfoMaker functions............. 629
Four examples ............................................................................. 630
Example 1: counting null values in a column ........................ 630
Example 2: counting male and female employees................ 632
Example 3: creating a row indicator ...................................... 636
Example 4: displaying all data when a column allows nulls .. 638
Other examples..................................................................... 639
Alphabetical list of DataWindow expression and InfoMaker
functions ......................................................................... 640
Abs ........................................................................................ 641
ACos...................................................................................... 641