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Several members of the OpenROAD Engineering team will be running a code Sprint at the Thistle City Barbican hotel in London on June 8th, 9th, and half day on the 10th followed by the UK AUA 1-daytechnical conference on June 11th, at which there will be several OpenROAD Specific presentations.

Join the OpenROAD Sprint June 8th - 10th in London
Sprint projects tend to be 4GL projects as they can be implemented quickly. How do we determine the projects implemented at a sprint?...

On Terminate event is currently valid only in frame scripts. An enhancement request, SIR 122582, for this event to be valid in field scripts is under review for possible inclusion in a future release. In the meantime, an alternative solution is to write a facility in 4GL code that provides equivalent results to this proposed feature, one that even offers a more flexible and complete solution. This article describes alternative ways to implement this solution.

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Every key on your keyboard is identified by a virtual key code. Virtual keys provide a mechanism to represent any key or key combination that could be issued from the keyboard. Virtual keys—also called logical keys—mapped to physical keyboard keys. This article reveals how you can customize keyboard mappings.

The Default Keyboard Map File

When OpenROAD starts, it performs a default mapping of logical key names to physical keyboard keys. The file %II_SYSTEM%\ingres\files\default.kbd...

A speed key is a keyboard shortcut that invokes a menu option or toggle state typically invoked by mouse clicking. Assigning a speed key to a menu button or menu toggle lets the user press Alt plus a speed key rather than selecting the menu item. For a menu button, pressing the speed key combination executes the command. For a menu toggle, pressing the speed key combination switches the option between the on and off states.

OpenROAD lets you assign speed keys to menu buttons and toggles...

A database connection profile is a collection of settings that Workbench uses to establish a connection with a local or remote database. To use any of the Workbench tabs other than the Connect tab, you first must connect to a database through a database connection profile. This means you must create at least one connection profile before you can connect to a database to do application development using Workbench.

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