What's New in DADiSP

A free DADiSP 6.5 upgrade is available for all authorized DADiSP 6.0 B18 products under Gold support.

DADiSP 6.0 B18 products under Standard support are eligible to upgrade at a discounted fee.

If your current build of DADiSP 6.0 is less than B18 or if your major version number of DADiSP is less than 6.0 (prior to DADiSP/2002), please contact us about updating to DADiSP 6.5.

Changes, New Features and Functions

Below is a comprehensive list of significant changes to DADiSP 6.5. New builds are generally released every four to six months and each build typically entails new features and functions as well as bug fixes.

Installation New Features New Functions MATLINK GUI Enhancements SPL Debugger SPL Enhancements Shapes and Text ActiveX Enhancements Configuration Command Line Arguments

ActiveX Enhancements REGISTEREVENT Handles Incoming ActiveX Events REGISTEREVENT assigns an SPL function to execute when an external AciveX event is fired. Consider the following SPL event handler: /* simple event handler */ MyEvent(argv) { local i, str = ""; loop (i = 1..argc) { str += sprintf("arg%d: %s ", i, caststring(getargv(i))); } message("MyEvent", str); } The handler can be used to process events from Internet Explorer. /* connect to Internet Explorer */ ie = createobject("internetexplorer.application"); /* navigate to home page */ ie.navigate("www.dadisp.com"); /* show it */ ie.visible = 1; /* establish event handler */ registerevent(ie, "TitleChange", "MyEvent"); Each time the title displayed by Internet Explorer changes, MyEvent is called and a message box is displayed. The event can also be specified by an integer event ID. For example: registerevent(ie, 0x71, "MyEvent"); UNREGISTEREVENT removes and SPL event handler. FIREEVENT and RAISEEVENT Fire Outgoing ActiveX Events FIREEVENT fires an ActiveX event with id numbers 1 through 8. Zero or more arguments can be passed to the event handler. The arguments are passed as a standard automation array of variants suitable for most automation or script languages. The following is an example of an event handler in VBA. Public WithEvents DSP As DADiSPApp ''' initialize server Sub InitDSP() Set DSP = New DADiSPApp DSP.Visible = True End Sub ''' handler for event 3 Sub DSP_Event03(ParamArray args() As Variant) Dim i As Integer Dim s As String s = "" For i = 0 To UBound(args) s = s + CStr(args(i)) Next i MsgBox s, vbOKOnly, "Event 3 Fired" End Sub To properly setup the event handler, add a Reference to the DADiSP Type Library. In DADiSP, executing the statement: fireevent(3) causes the DSP_Event03 VBA code to execute and display a message box. The statement: fireevent(3, "test", 2.5) causes the DSP_Event03 VBA code to execute and display the text: test 2.5 RAISEEVENT uses id number 9 through 16 and provides the optional arguments as a SafeArray of variants suitable for .NET languages. GETCONTROL Returns the Current ActiveX Object An SPL event handler can retrieve the handle to the calling ActiveX control or server with GETCONTROL. Consider the following SPL event handler: /* simple event handler */ MyEvent(argv) { local i, str = ""; loop (i = 1..argc) { str += sprintf("arg%d: %s ", i, caststring(getargv(i))); } /* get calling ActiveX object */ ctrl = getcontrol(); /* display status text and title */ message(ctrl.StatusText, str); } The handler can be used to process events from Internet Explorer. /* connect to Internet Explorer */ ie = createobject("internetexplorer.application"); /* navigate to home page */ ie.navigate("www.dadisp.com"); /* show it */ ie.visible = 1; /* establish event handler */ registerevent(ie, "TitleChange", "MyEvent"); Each time the title displayed by Internet Explorer changes, MyEvent is called and a message box is displayed. The message box displays the status line text and the current title of the displayed web page. Calculate Method Calculate accepts a variable number of arguments from an ActiveX client. Visual Basic Example: Dim DADiSP as Object Dim val as Variant ''' Connect to DADiSP Set DADiSP = CreateObject("dadisp.application") ''' Create a 2 Window Worksheet without prompting Call DADiSP.Execute("Newworksheet(2, 0)") ''' Generate 10x3 random array, return result as a variant val = DADiSP.Calculate("rand", 10, 3) Starts DADiSP as an ActiveX Automation server, creates a 2 Window Worksheet, returns a 10x3 random array by processing the input arguments. The placement of the arguments can be specified with the $ character. Visual Basic Example: Dim DADiSP as Object ''' Connect to DADiSP Set DADiSP = CreateObject("dadisp.application") ''' Create a 2 Window Worksheet without prompting Call DADiSP.Execute("Newworksheet(2, 0)") ''' Generate a scaled 100 point random series with formula Call DADiSP.Calculate("W1 := gnorm($1, 1)*$2", 100, 10) Starts DADiSP as an ActiveX Automation server, creates a 2 Window Worksheet and places a 100 point random series in W1 scaled by 10 with a formula. The positions of the input arguments are specified by the placeholder variables $1 and $2.

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