Pathmaker Programming Guide

About This Manual
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Section 3, “Pathmaker Application Development Overview,” provides an overview of
the tasks that must be completed to create and maintain a Pathmaker application. This
section is of interest to individuals who are responsible for implementing and
maintaining a Pathmaker application.
Section 4, “Creating Services and Servers,” describes in detail how to create Pathmaker
custom services and servers and includes directions for using Pathmaker to generate
SQL data manipulation statements. This section is of interest to individuals who are
responsible for creating or designing services and servers for a Pathmaker application.
Section 5, “Creating Requesters,” describes in detail how to create and generate
Pathmaker requesters, including how to integrate requesters and services. This section
is of interest to individuals who are responsible for creating or designing requesters
for a Pathmaker application.
Section 6, “Using the Screen Painter,” describes in detail how to use the Pathmaker
Screen Painter. This section is of interest to individuals who are responsible for
creating or designing requesters for a Pathmaker application.
Section 7, “Finishing and Installing the Application,” describes in detail how to
complete a Pathmaker application after the application developers have created the
services, servers, and requesters for the application. This section is of interest to
individuals who are responsible for preparing a Pathmaker application for testing.
Section 8, “Maintaining Pathmaker Applications,” describes procedures for some of
the most common changes that an application developer would make to an existing
Pathmaker application. This section is of interest to individuals who are responsible
for maintaining a Pathmaker application.
Section 9, “Advanced Pathmaker Programming Topics,” describes the details of
several advanced Pathmaker programming tasks including creating a requester copy
library, changing a Pathmaker skeleton, and providing national language support.
Section 10, “Sample Pathmaker Sessions,” illustrates how to use Pathmaker to create
three small applications.
Appendix A, “Reference Summary,” contains the screen map for the Pathmaker
screens and several summary charts and check lists from the body of this manual.
Application developers are encouraged to print this appendix and use it as a quick
reference while using the Pathmaker product.
Appendix B, “How to Operate a DB Requester Application,” explains how to operate a
Pathmaker application created with DB requesters and standard services. This
appendix is of interest to designers and end users of such applications.
Appendix C, “Defining Data for a NonStop SQL Pathmaker Application,” contains
information about how a Pathmaker application interacts with NonStop SQL columns
that allow null values, and about using clustering keys and date and time data types in
a NonStop SQL Pathmaker application.