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HiNow I’m on thin ice.I have a Uniface9 service (self-contained) that has changed an entity's read trigger, i.e. what is in the data model's read trigger is overwritten in the form.When exporting and importing to Uniface 10.04.3_038, that what is in the entity's read trigger is still used. Is this correct?Does it have something to do with this?; Migration Logical: Specify whether precompiler directives are generated to prevent ; triggers and entries from being inherited in selected cases.     ; 0 = do not generate     ; 1 = generate precompiler directives (default)MIGRATION_SCRIPT_V9_INHERITANCE = 1Regards RogerW

We are using DLL's with COM interoperability in our Uniface application. Up to today we use C# / .NET Framework 4.8, but want to switch over to C# / .NET Core to be more in line with all other written applications written in C#. I managed to create a (relative) simple DLL with .NET Core, publish it and create a Type Library. I can import that TLB file into Uniface 10 and compile the signature. But when instantiating this component I get an error stating “Unable to get COM type information for COM class”. What could be wrong?

HelloWe have installed Uniface IDE locally on every developer laptop/pc.I wonder where the tabs (editors?) are saved as you also see the components edited by other programmers?Is it possible to see only your own editors?Regards RogerW  

Hi all,do you know if Uniface 9.7.04 runs on Windows server 2025?ThanksAlessandro

March Hare Software have just released an updated UD6 - Uniface Version Control for Uniface 10.4.03, and all previous releases of Uniface back to and including Uniface 7.UD6 is a “database driver” to store your Uniface source code in text files, so you can use any “normal” devops processes around version control, build management, continuous integration, testing, etc. etc.A quick video of how to use GitHub and Uniface 10 with UD6 is available here:  With the help of my team here, a few years ago we created an open source Eclipse development environment for Uniface.  But I think that the Eclipse development environment has been superseded by VS Code.  I’m toying with the idea of making a VS Code environment for Uniface.  Along with Uniface source code in text files with UD6, it would simplify the use of Claude or other generative AI programming with Uniface.  I’m curious as to feedback from the community if this is something you would find useful?I’ve been the lead developer of UD6 for

On out development server, we have several installs of uniface for different uses (devel, testing, ‘live’ etc.) Some of these I can tell apart in the “Programs and Features” because they are different versions or patches. Others I cannot. Having just uninstalled the wrong version in an attempt to fix another problem, the question is. Is there a trick to naming the installations inthe Programs and features MMC so we can tell them apart. The info gives us version and install date, but not install path, and I can’t see any sensible way to differentiate them. Iain

Currently in our version control system, we have exports of each component we generate in Uniface, which are then imported during check out and then exported during check in.  In our migration from 9.7 to 10.4, one of the things I would like to do is do a full export of everything from my 10.4 repository to put back into version control.Individual components are pretty easy, as we can name the component we want to export and pass that to $ude, since we know the name of the component from our version control system.  What I would like to be able to do is from within Uniface, list all of the components programmatically and then for each individual component, export each component to its own XML file for check in.  Is there a way to list all components or even all objects in the repository programmatically? 

Hello all, We are currently in the process of upgrading from Uniface 10.4.02.052 to 10.4.03.019 and have noticed a difference in behaviour with our HTML widget that we are not sure how to resolve. I believe this is probably due to a newer version of the CEF framework that is included in this release. I know that Uniface is not responsible for CEF functionality, however, I wonder if anyone has encountered the following issue or can suggest a solution.... We have a form component with a HTML widget on it. We communicate with a third-party via REST APIs and they send us back the URLs of a number of images, and we then update the HTML widget to render these images. The URLs to these images are stored on a CDN. Whenever the HTML widget renders these images the following error is recorded in the message frame: HTML Widget: Third-party cookie will be blocked. Learn more in the Issues tab. The HTML widget displays many images and so this error appears many times. Despite this, the images are s

Does everyone's IDE start page look like the following, or have I got something messed up in the ini files somewhere? The dates appear to be nonsensical/missing.  Regards,  Iain------------------------------Iain SharpHead of Technical ServicesPci Systems LtdSheffield GB------------------------------

Hi freaksI was forced to upgrade ourWindows-Server and SQL-Server to Version “2025”No problem but now, when I connect (from our application) the first time to the database it takes 8 secondssql/print "SELECT top 1 1 FROM aTable", "DEF"Profiling on MS-SQL give me no hint, as the duration of all action are a few microseconds.Using procmon results in this picture UnifAce connects and deconnect several time. Every reconnect last 0.5 seconds so in total we are near the eight seconds (measured by counting aloud)So what’s going on here?As I said, it's really just the simple SQL/print statement, nothing else.Oh yes, when I start the IDF, I got thisWhat happens here for about two seconds?Thanks for any hintIngo 

HiDoes anyone know where the “vlisting.xml” is found nowadays?Akerman:Here is an export of my custom listing viewer implementation: vlisting.xml.Regards RogerW 

Hi Unifacers,I would like to understand how to deal with VARIANT datatype in a COM interface with Uniface.VARIANT datatype as far as I’ve understood from Microsoft documentation is accepting either strings or numeric or any other datatypes and based on the datatype received it is reacting accordingly.Giving an easy understandable example (but the problem is generic):an Excel workbook could be composed from one or more worksheet; when more worksheets are available the program should select the one it wants to work into.After loading the Excel type library in Uniface and opening the workbook the operation to be called to move to a specific worksheet is:    sheets->get_item(handle out, variant in)- First param is an output parameter and it is the handle/pointer to the requested sheet- Second param is a VARIANT and it could be either a number or a string; when number it means the ordinal number identifying the requested worksheet or when string it means the name assigned to the workshee

We are loading a third party web page to an HTML widget in a DSP which is in turn loaded into an HTML widget from our C.S. Application. The 3rd party web page is displaying the dates etc in American format. and the navigator.language when queried in the inspector is “en-US”. The user/machine I am running the client application on is set to language “en-GB” when I run chrome and use the inspector. It is important that I can set the accepted languages and preferred language for my application as people will be confused by the date formats. How do you control these settings in the HTML widget/cefrender? NOTE, I am currently jumping through hoops to set the locale in the DSP code, but this is a 3rd party software… Regards, Iain

HiI have installed patch line Uniface 10.4.03.036 today. The Ide startpage tries to load “Loading community topics”, but it’s just spinning.If you restart the Ide, you may be lucky and it loads, but usually just spinning.It doesn’t lock the ide but..I think I have seen something about this in the forum, but I can’t find it.Regards RogerWStartpage 

We do all our exports to CSV by lfieldump and this works for yearsNow, however, a customer came up with the idea of using a DOS environment variable to determine the directory instead of fixed directories.So instead of "Q:\outpute\export1.csv,"it should now be "%app_export%\export1.csv"(where app_export is defined differently on each client).Unfortunately, Uniface cannot handle this; the file system converts it to "?app_export?\export1.csv," and the file system complains.Is there a simple solution for this, i.e., any letter combinations that can be used at the file system level to resolve "%%app_export%"?Of course, I can use a few tricks to ask Windows/DOS what the resolution is before each fieldump, and then replace that part. But I'm reluctant to check all our programs for this and make changes :-)A customer 

I have a CS form with an HTML widget on it. The CS form has a proc on it as per below. entry lp_refresh $fieldhandle("d_to_do_list")->$widgetoperation("JS:uniface.getInstance('SYD_TO_DO_LIST').activate('refresh')")endThe DSP SYD_TO_DO_LIST has an operation refresh as per below. Where “widget” is the name of a DSP container widget. operation refreshpublic webscope input output operation all_instances().refreshendscope if(widget != "" & widget != "SYD_BI") activate widget.refresh() endif return 0endThis successfully executes the refresh operation on the DSP contained by the widget container, and in turn on a widget contained by that container. So it all appears good. However, if I inspect the cef process (ENABLEDEVTOOLS=true), it builds up uncaught exceptions as per below, every time the refresh is fired. NOTE the refresh works, it just stacks an error in the dev tools.  VM124:1 Uncaught TypeError: uniface.getInstance(...).activate(...) is not a function at <anonymous>:1:58

Uniface and EDIFACTAuthor: i.sharp@pcisystems.co.uk (Iain Sharp) Has anyone used the EDIFACT standards to create/consume an EDI solution?  I'd like to determine if I need a third party app to convert to something useful, or if I can write something which will work directly in Uniface (or as a COM/DLL plugin).  If anyone has done similar, could you briefly say how difficult a task it was?  Regards,  Iain

Just for your information*)In UF 9, I had stored a list with GOLD- as a constant. That worked well.In UF 10, constants are created textually in DEFPARAM, and the semicolon acts as a comment character.The nice list is ruined :-(*) Even if Uniface were to correct this, it would take forever for it to be delivered in a version.“Unfortunately”, I need it right now. As a workaround, I used a pipe symbol instead of GOLD-;.And, of course, I have to convert | back to GOLD-; wherever it is used.

If anyone finds themselves in the same situation as I was after applying patch 26 to 10.4.03 and the Ctrl+F no longer brings up the find box in the proc editor, then just add this to your usys.ini and it will get you going again. My guess is that when they added the feature “Go to line number in code” they broke whatever the defaults that were baked into the proc editor because the search and the search and replace worked just fine without having to be defined in the usys.ini file(s). I opened a support ticket on this and eventually solved it myself. Hopefully, they address it or at a minimum, add it automatically to the usys.ini in future patches as they are applied.[userkeys]code.search=Ctrl+Fcode.searchandreplace=Ctrl+Hcode.gotoline=Ctrl+G

We have a web page built in against an HTML widget in our CS. Clicking a button on the web page uses a JS trigger to start loading a CS form and populating it with data. Whilst this is happening (can be up to 10 seconds before the entire form is loaded/shown) the web page is active and there is no indication at the client end that anything is happening. I’d like to turn on the ‘Processsing’ function, as per the refresh/loading of the page in the first place, from JS calls to the HTML widget before the activate of the triggered form, and off again after the form is loaded. (So the user doesn’t think nothing is happening and click the button several times (causing multiple instances of the form to fire up). Is this possible? Putting the DSP into ‘locked/processing’ state without the round trip to the server refresh… Iain

I have some data held in a field which I am painting on a DSP. Currently the field is set to statictext, but if I make the surrounding structure (div etc) have a fixed width, the field contents overflow it. I want to set them to wrap inside the width. However, the STATICTEXT field type translates to SPAN, and SPAN does not follow width or word-wrap, what DSP field type can I use doe display only text which follows the wordwrap stuff. I tried making the field ‘ATTRIBUTESONLY’ but then the text is not displayed (the ‘static text’ from the HTS is shown instead...) Regards, Iain