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Updated Send Message Example!
Software Tool & Die Inc.
(STD) are please to announce the new release of an STD Integrated Framework example application that utilizes the STD framework to implement O/S messaging! The Send Message feature inside PowerBuilder has been around since PB version 2.0.
However,
it is not a well documented and known feature of the PB development tool.
The STD Send Message example goes even further by allowing
applications to communicate across processes. The STD framework allows the
PB developer to easily implement messaging. The framework also allows the PB developer to be exponentially more productive!
The Send Message example application utilizes the STD Integrated Framework version 2025.1.0.436 released on 2025-05-19 and the newest Appeon PowerBuilder 2025 release build 3683 to locate external applications. In turn, the framework facilitates
external applications written in PB or almost any development language - to
send messages back to PB applications using the PB Send() command.
The download includes three applications, Sender, Receiver and SendReceive. The SendReceive application demonstrates locating any object class in your PB App and its address (handle). Once an object class handle is found the calling object can use the Send() command to send it an O/S message. The messaged control can then send back information (ie: its Class Name) to the caller by using another Send() command:
https://docs.appeon.com/pb2025/powerscript_reference/send_func.html#send_syntax1_func
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| SendReceive example using Send() to introspect other objects! |
The Integrated framework also allows you to send messages
from one application to another. The Sender and Receiver applications in the download provide this example between applications (processes). These PB applications can be running as
either a Native, System Tray or System Task process. They also demonstrate the use of the "Custom User Event" to be able to send messages back & forth between any App and a PB App.
The 2025 Send Message applications have been updated to use the new PB Themes, TabbedView and DosplayMenuAsRibbonBar features of PB 2025.
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| Sender & Receiver example of inter-process Send Messages |
The STD Send Message PowerBuilder example applications can now be downloaded from the SourceForge website. Please click here to download & enjoy!
Enjoy ... Chris
