Parameter definition problems

Hi everybody,
When defining the parameters for IV_ACT and IV_MAX in the method Get_Percentage, the system is requesting for Associated Type, the Typing Method being Type.
I tried creating Data Elements with Data Type, but no success.
I then created Table Types, still no sucsess.
The program cannot proceed and I cannot save anything.
Can anybody help me out please?

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Attachments:
Write MIDI SysEx Message.vi ‏21 KB

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The reason this works is that a pointer is just an address; as long as all the right bytes are in memory in the right order starting at that address, all is well. The DLL doesn't know that LabView thinks it is passing a pointer to an array of bytes, it just gets the pointer to the first byte and it reads and interprets those bytes according to its own struct def. Reverse the process cooming back from the DLL (convert byte array to string, unflatten from string against the LV cluster.) This method will work for any flat struct.
In LabView 8.5 there may be a less bogus way of doing this, which is to pass the cluster in with Adapt to Type and select "Array Data Pointer" as the format. This is new and I haven't tried it.
But in your case, you want to point to a struct that contains a pointer to a string plus some numeric data and another pointer, and this you can't do directly. LabView does not expose the location of a string to you anywhere outside the Call Library Function node, so there's no way to "find the pointer" to a LabView string from outside the DLL. What you need to do in this case is write a wrapper function in C that takes your LabView data. Only then will LabView "tell you where the bytes are" and promise not to fiddle with them until the library call is complete. Once you are in C-land, you can throw pointers around to your heart's content. As long as you do it all perfectly, all will be well. (If you write one byte too many on output, boom! :-)
There are a few ways to do this. You could make a cluster that has meaning in LabView, e.g. replace lpData with a LabView string, then pass the cluster in to your wrapper function set to "Adapt to Type"; that will pass a handle to the cluster. You can generate the .c file from the Call Lib Fuction, and it will outline where the data is.
Complications: In this case it's your job to convert the handle to the labview string (which has 4 bytes of length as a prefix and no trailing 0x00) to a C-string by malloc()'ing a new buffer and memcopying the string out. There might be something in the LV CIN tools that does this, I'm not sure. Make sure you release the new string after the MIDI call.
The lazy route (which is what I would do) is pass the string as the first arg and all of the numeric stuff as the second arg, leaving the space for lpData as you have now. (I don't know what struct "midihdr_tag" is, but if that's not something you were passed in a previous call, you'll need to add a third argument for that cluster and treat it similarly.) Then you can tell LabView that it should pass the string arg as a C-string pointer. Inside your wrapper, extract the pointers and stuff them into the data structure as needed. Dereference once (to go from handle to pointer) and make the MIDI call. To be clean, put everything back where it was before in the cluster; in particular don't believe you can pass out lpData* and do whatever you want with it in LabView; LabView will release/change that address as soon as you leave the output string unwired or do anything to it (e.g. concatenate.) You'll be creating a new string buffer and a new pointer on your next MIDI call.
All of this complication is a result of a) LabView's hiding the details of memory allocation/deallocation from you and b) LabView's internal data structures being a bit different from C conventions (e.g. LabView strings vs. C strings). The second means that even when LabView is using non-flat data structures (e.g. cluster containing an array), you can't just blindly pass them along to a C function and expect it to work right. It would be nice if NI would write a little mini-compiler into the Call Library Function that would do what our wrapper function is going to do, but that's probably a fairly significant project.
Still, each function wrapper is only going to have about 10 lines of C. You can put wrappers for all the MIDI functions you want to call into a single DLL, then ship that DLL with your app.
(Now you see why I suggested you look for an ActiveX MIDI control!)
-Rob Calhoun

Output Parameter cast problems

Wondering if anyone has seen this ...
Migrating a data access layer (based on the MS DAAB) using the ODP.NET provider. I wrote my own parameter discovery code to dynamically configure parameters at runtime - just like the SqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters() method does for SQL Server sprocs.
(I query the "all_arguments" view to get this data, by the way, passing the package name and procedure name.)
Here's the problem: you cannot discover the Size property for a parameter via this query. Bummer. So for VarChar2 and Char types I tried setting the Size to somethng big, like 2000.
When I retrieve the parameters after an ExecuteNonQuery statement, I am getting Type cast errors:
"Cast from type 'OracleString' to type 'String' is not valid"
Here's the weird part:
- CType(params(5).Value, Integer) 'WORKS
- CType(params(2).Value, String) 'DOESN'T WORK
- params(2).Value.ToString 'WORKS
- CType(params(2).Value, Date) 'DOESN'T WORK
What the ...? Why can't I cast a VarChar2 or Char type back to a .NET String? Why does ToString work but Ctype() not work?
I hope somebody can offer guidance, I've got a lot invested in this DAL :-)
Thanks eh
Kurt Mang
Vancouver BC

There's not really an elegant way to provide these conversions in VB. In C# OracleString uses operator overloading to provide type conversions, but this version of VB doesn't support it.
They might have implemented IConvertible on the oracle types.
Then you could write
Dim osw as new OracleString("Hello")
Dim s as String = CType(osw, IConvertible).ToString
But that's not really better than
Dim osw as new OracleString("Hello")
Dim s as String = osw.Value
The long and short of it is, OracleTypes ( and other ADO.NET provider types), are special high-performance types (usually value types), and they convert using a different idiom. By convention they are converted to the corresponding framework type using a property called .Value, and constructed from framework types using a constructor.
String s = New OracleString("Hello").Value
Converts the Unicode string "Hello" to an OracleString structure, and then back to a unicode string.
David

Parameter List Problems

Post Author: Mbonz
CA Forum: .NET
Hi all,
I have a VB.Net application that programatically passes pick list values to BO report parameters from an Access recordset (BO Enterprise XI R1 SP3). When the user selects "..." (i.e. all records) from the drop down I add all values from the recordset to the parameter. Simple enough.
However, when I open the ReportViewer, everything hangs and the system times out with the error "Page Server has been shut down or the service is unavailable".
The bizzare thing is that it all works perfectly if I reduce the number of parameters I am populating so I assume it is a list size problem, something to do with IE7 or a problem with IIS on a Windows 2000 Server. (It seems to work in an IE6 test environment using IIS on Windows XP)
Has anyone come across this problem?

Post Author: dhopp
CA Forum: .NET
I had a simliar problem to this a few years ago with CR9 reports. I had to come up with a different value to use when the user selects "all" rather than passing in the string value for each option then interpret it in the either the report or the database. There was a hotfix for CR9 to fix long character parameter values but I still found it cleaner to use a single character to represent "all".
HTH,Dia

Parameter list problem

Hi guys how are you
i created a form that opens a number of reports and i send a different parameter list to each report but th thing is that the parameter list only affects one report is there any settings should be set to the report or is there problem in the trigger
thanks

You may have to check the parameter names called from the forms and used in the reports. If in report it doesn't exist, report is not going to give you the results as you like.

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Hi,
currently I'm calling out of a business process a RFC module in the ABAP stack of our XI to access a DB table which is also located on XI. This table has got one key field of a 25 character length.
In our RFC we are sending in the moment in this key field only a length of 21 characters and the select statement in the module has got problems to find the equivalent table entry. When we test the function module in the ABAP stack with the same key the entry is found.
It seems that the key parameter is shifted between the RFC-XML and the module itself.
Any ideas to solve this?
Thanks,
Christina

Henrique,
thanks for your answer.
I filled the field with zeros on the left up to 25 characters. The program added it to the database as new entry.
Even when I fill the field to its full length with any other value the select statement doesn't find the existing entry and tries to add a new one.
More ideas?
Thanks.

Jnlp file parameter element problem

Hello all,
I have a jar file which contains all the class files and an configuration file of type(.cfg).
For my application to run properly i need to pass this .cfg file as an argument to the main method in one of the file in the jar...
i did pass the name of the file as one of the parameter element,but my application is not initialized and not working.but the jar files have been deployed in the local machine.
so my question is , is there a way so that i can pass my file as a parameter to the main method through jnlp xml file.

thanks andrew,
but my problem is that i need to pass the path of my file along with the name of the file to the main method ...and in turn my main method will do all the required processing work..
the jar file that is to be deployed contains the class files and the .cfg file..
my jnlp files looks as follows:-
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="$$codebase" href="voicechat.jnlp">
<information>
<title>SIP Based Voice Chat</title>
<vendor>First Internet Systems Pvt Ltd</vendor>
<description>Voice Chat</description>
<description kind="short">Voice Chat </description>
<icon href="images/demologo.gif"/>
</information>
<security>
<all-permissions/>
</security>
<resources>
<j2se version="1.5" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se"/>
<jar href="sip.jar"/>
<jar href="ua.jar"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="local.ua.GraphicalUA">
<argument>-f</argument>
<argument>a.cfg</argument>
</application-desc>
</jnlp>
the second argument that i had passed is the name of the file in the jar to be passed..
but as a result when i invoke this file, the jar files are deployed but application is not starting as expected..for it to work the file and its path has to be passed to the main method..
which is what i tried through argument element...but it does not seem to work..
so all that i need to know is that, is it possible to pass a file and its path as an argument in the jnlp file..

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