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Portable API Presentation Procedures
This chapter describes the interface between the TP Desktop Connector
gateway and customer-written presentation procedures. It also describes the
interfaces on portable clients for customer-written action routines to perform
version checking.
3.1 Summary of Portable API Presentation Procedures
Presentation procedures are customer-written routines that the TP Desktop
Connector gateway calls when an exchange step occurs in a ACMS task with
either the FORM I/O or REQUEST I/O attribute. Table 3–1 summarizes
the presentation procedures available in a nonblocking session. These are
not applicable to a forced nonblocking session. For more information on
presentation procedures, refer to Compaq TP Desktop Connector for ACMS
Client Application Programming Guide.
Table 3–1 Summary of Portable API Presentation Procedures
Customer-Supplied Procedure
Description
acmsdi_disable
Services a Compaq DECforms disable request,
which disables a form.
acmsdi_enable
Services a DECforms enable request, which enables
a form.
acmsdi_read_msg
Services a TDMS Read exchange, which displays
the prompt, if any, sent from the ACMS task, and
acquires the text from the form’s message field.
acmsdi_receive
Services a DECforms receive request, which sends
data from the form to the application program.
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