Undocumented Functions & Variables

[george7a]

Hi All,

In the last week I bumped into an undocumented function . I was interested in this issue and I will dedicate this thread for them. I am not talking about old functions/variables that are not documented in the new manuals and were documented in old ones. These kinds of functions were kept in order to support older versions. I am talking about totally undocumented functions/variables.

I have seen and old thread talking about two undocumented functions for Baan 5 (one of them is documented). This thread will include undocumented functions & variables for all Baan versions.

Here is a list for the undocumented functions that were posted in Baanboard:

get.message.type() was mentioned in this link.

clipboard.to.file() function was mentioned in this link. More clipboard related function here.

fork() function was mentioned in this link.

crypt.password$() function was mentioned in this link.

If you know some more undocumented functions/variables, please share them here .

Best Regards,

- George

[spartacus]

I think "free$" has also to be mentioned. It is discussed here:
http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/s...hlight=free%24

[george7a]

I would like to share that this all began when I found a function in Baan IV by "luck". I searched for it in the IV & V manuals but I did not find it. After a while I searched in the LN manual and there it was! So it was not a totally undocumented function after all.

However, I believe there are other undocumented functions/variables out there. I will make this thread a sticky one (for a while) so that others can contribute.

- George

[Hitesh Shah]

I checked in the documentation . I think this also is an internal variable which stores current company name .

[george7a]

single.occ.objects was mentioned in this post. As I have noticed, it is used to hold the ID number of each object used in the session.

[george7a]

Originally Posted by Hitesh Shah

I checked in the documentation . I think this also is an internal variable which stores current company name .

I have found that the attr.company$ is an extern string defined in ottstp_stddll & ottstpstandard DLLs.

Edit: This was found on Baan IV

[Hitesh Shah]

True . In fact this variable could be available in any program only if it's delcared in any of these programs . In fact all Baan 4GL programs are extensions of ottstpstandard which contains the Baan standard program logic .

In fact u can extend this logic for other function prototypes and other variables also .

[george7a]

In the manuals of Baan IV/V pstat function is not fully documented. There are some macros that can retrieve information from pstats's output. Only the first three macros (ps.state, ps.group & ps.parent) are documented. I have luckily found other macros that do work on Baan IV.

Here is the full list:

ps.state(info) | returns PSRUNNING, PSBLOCKING, PSSLEEPING, or PSTERMINATING.

ps.group(info) | returns the identifier of the process group to which the process belongs.

ps.parent(info) | returns the identifier of the parent process of the process group.

ps.nice(info) | returns the nice value of the process.

ps.cpu.use(info) | returns the number of ticks used by the process.

ps.mwin(info) | returns the object id of the main window of the process.

ps.pri(info) | returns the priority of the process.

ps.size(info) | returns the amount of memory allocated by the process (in bytes).

ps.cwin(info) | returns the object id of the current window of the process

After that, I checked in the LN manuals and the function was fully documented (with all the macros)! I thought I will post the full documentation here so others can see those undocumented macros also in Baan IV & V.

- George

[NPRao]

More inf on SWITCH.TO.PROCESS How to Combine two session in a one form

[george7a]

I have ran through this function on our Baan IV! It takes the following arguments:

long = oipstat (long,long,string)

It reminds me of pstat() function. However I did not find it in any documentation and I don't know what it does!

Maybe someone else knows!

Edit:
The documentation for this function can be found here

- George

[george7a]

get.cust.code takes no arguments and returns the Baan Customer Code as a string.

P.S. found in Baan IV

[george7a]

get.lic.no takes no arguments and return the Baan License Number as long

[george7a]

is.password.ok takes two strings and returns true if there is a match between the password and the encrypted one (review crypt.password$ function in this thread). After I found it, I saw it was mentioned in the following links:
http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/s...is.password.ok
http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/s...is.password.ok

- George

[george7a]

As I understand load.font() should load a font into a variable that will be used in setting the font for the chart manager

It was mentioned:
http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/s...ight=load.font

It was also mentioned in the Twiki but not documented:
http://www.baanboard.com/programmers..._set_tree_font

[george7a]

Subdal has its own thread here: http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?t=929