Tutorial Chapter 3: Displaying Data
This chapter illustrates opening a window that contains a form to
display information to the user. An SQL statement is used to retrieve the data from a database
table. A form specification file is defined to display the values retrieved. The actions that are
available to the user are defined in the source code, tied to buttons that display on the
form.
Application Overview The Form Specification File Opening Windows and Forms OPEN WINDOW instruction, and destroys a window with the CLOSE WINDOW instruction.User interaction with MENU Retrieving and Displaying Data DISPLAY BY NAME statement.Compiling and Running the Program dispcust.4gl module and the custdorm.per form file must be compiled. You can select the Build option in the Genero Studio Project view to perform these tasks or use command line tools.Localization Support locale defining the character encoding.