Application Properties

You can set the following properties using the Create Application dialog or modify them later using the Application Properties dialog.

Important! In OpenROAD, the following objects can be named: applications, classes, components, databases, database tables and columns, parameters, procedures, user events, and variables. The rules for these names, or alphanumeric identifiers, are as follows:

• Names must begin with an alphabetic character or an underscore (_).

• In addition to letters and numerals, a name may contain these characters: #, @, and $.

• A name may not be a reserved word (see the 4GL Keywords section in the “System Constants and Keywords” appendix of the Language Reference Guide).

Indicates the frame or procedure in the current application (but not from an included application) that is used as the entry point for the application.

Because this field is initially empty for a new application, you set this property after creating the rest of your application's components. For instructions, see Specify or Modify Application Properties.

Note: This property is not available on the Create Application dialog.

Specifies the database whose data the application will access when it executes. You can select one of the following values:

Uses the repository database to which you are currently connected

Specifies no database. In this case, the application must explicitly open a database connection using the Connect method on the DBSessionObject.

For more information about the Connect method and the DBSessionObject, see the Programming Guide, the Language Reference Guide, and the System Reference Summary.

Lets you enter the name of a database other than the one to which the application is currently connected

Specifies an optional comment or description about the application

Specifies any optional command line parameters for running the application during the current development session.

Note: For details about specifying runtime parameters for a session, see Specify or Modify Application Properties.

Specifies an optional text file containing the initial values for the application's global variables and constants during the current development session.

Note: For details about creating a file of initial values, see Specify or Modify Application Properties and Specify Initial Values for Global Variables and Global Constants.

Specifies any optional Ingres flags to be included with the CONNECT statement.

Note: For information about using the RunImage utility to override the DBMS flags specified for an application upon creation, see Managing and Deploying Applications. For more information about flags that can be used with the CONNECT command, see CREATEDB in the Ingres Command Reference Guide.

Specifies the graphic image that is displayed when a running application's frames are minimized. If a frame is explicitly provided with an icon, that icon is displayed when the frame is minimized. If a frame has no icon, the icon associated with the application is displayed instead.

You can specify an image file containing a custom icon or use the default OpenROAD icon, shown in the following illustration:

Although bitmap (.bmp) files may work in some cases, icon (.ico) files are recommended.