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Publication date December 2012 Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 2 What’s in this manual .................................................................................................................. 2 What’s new in Dexterity Utilities ...............................................................................................2 Symbols and conventions............................................................................................................ 3 Part 1: Basics ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 1: Getting Started .......................................................................................... 7 Basic components ......................................................................................................................... 7 Launching Dexterity Utilities...................................................................................................... 7 Dexterity Utilities terms...............................................................................................................8 Working with dictionaries.........................................................................................................10 Chapter 2: The Dexterity Utilities Interface.............................................. 11 The main menu ........................................................................................................................... 11 The toolbar................................................................................................................................... 12 The menu bar...............................................................................................................................13 Part 2: Utility Reference......................................................................................... 16 Utility Summary .........................................................................................................................17 Chapter 3: Transfer Utilities.................................................................................... 21 Transferring resources................................................................................................................22 Transferring strings and messages........................................................................................... 29 Transferring windows................................................................................................................31 Transferring dictionary modules.............................................................................................. 33 Developer update ....................................................................................................................... 35 Chapter 4: Script Utilities ......................................................................................... 37 Compiling form scripts..............................................................................................................38 Compiling global procedures ................................................................................................... 40 Compiling global functions....................................................................................................... 42 Searching and replacing.............................................................................................................44 DEXTERITY UTILITIES i CONTENTS Chapter 5: Resource Utilities.................................................................................. 47 Changing the dictionary core ................................................................................................... 48 Updating series resources......................................................................................................... 50 Chapter 6: Inquiry Utilities........................................................................................ 53 Viewing form information ........................................................................................................54 Viewing resource information.................................................................................................. 55 Chapter 7: Dictionary Utilities .............................................................................. 57 Synchronizing a dictionary....................................................................................................... 58 Using the packaging utilities.................................................................................................... 59 Compressing dictionaries ......................................................................................................... 60 Creating chunk dictionaries .....................................................................................................61 Comparing dictionaries............................................................................................................. 67 Adding product information.................................................................................................... 69 Extracting .................................................................................................................................... 72 Expanding windows.................................................................................................................. 74 SQL Compatibility ..................................................................................................................... 75 Auto-Chunk ................................................................................................................................ 78 Converting a user interface....................................................................................................... 82 Changing Evaluate After .......................................................................................................... 90 Part 3: Report Reference........................................................................................94 Printing reports .......................................................................................................................... 94 Information about the sample reports .................................................................................... 94 Reports summary....................................................................................................................... 95 Forms Report ............................................................................................................................ 101 Reports Report.......................................................................................................................... 104 Tables Report ............................................................................................................................ 106 Global Functions Report ......................................................................................................... 109 Global Procedures Report........................................................................................................111 Global Resources Report..........................................................................................................113 Local Resources Report ............................................................................................................116 Resource Lists ............................................................................................................................119 Global Resource Usage Report............................................................................................... 122 Local Resource Usage Report................................................................................................. 126 ii DEXTERITY UTILITIES CONTENTS Linked Prompt Report ............................................................................................................