fivewin

FiveWin + xBrowse over ADS — running on OpenADS

xbrowse_ads.prg is a FiveWin (FWH) app that opens an Advantage table through Harbour's rddads contrib (RDD ADSCDX) and shows it in an xBrowse — but linked against OpenADS' ace64.dll instead of a SAP-shipped ACE. It stages a small customer.dbf in a temp dir, builds NAME/CITY orders, and browses it; xbrowse_ads.exe /auto walks the browse (GoBottom / GoTop / re-sort via the RDD) and closes itself, so it doubles as a quick "the FWH→rddads→OpenADS stack works" smoke run.

Not in CI. FWH is a commercial GUI library and the demo opens a window — manual showcase. (tests/smoke/harbour/ is the headless, CI-friendly equivalent of the same rddads→OpenADS path.)

Prerequisites

• FiveWin (FWH) — commercial, from FiveTech. %FWDIR% (defaults to c:\fwteam in build64.cmd). Not vendored here.
• Harbour 3.2 with contrib/rddads built for bcc64 (%HBDIR%\lib\win\bcc64\librddads.a + %HBDIR%\contrib\rddads\libace64.a).
• Embarcadero bcc64 (c:\bcc7764) — FWH's x64 compiler.
• A built OpenADS ace64.dll + ace64.lib (e.g. build/default/src/Release/). It must be the OpenADS DLL, not SAP's — copy it next to the produced .exe or put its directory first on PATH.

Build & run

:: from this directory — MSVC 64-bit (the verified path)
build_msvc64.cmd  C:\OpenADS\build\default\src\Release
xbrowse_ads.exe          :: interactive window
xbrowse_ads.exe /auto    :: self-closing smoke run; exit 0 on success

build_msvc64.cmd mirrors FWH's samples\build_new.bat :HM64 path with two extra link entries — rddads.lib (Harbour's ADS RDD) and OpenADS' ace64.lib — and copies OpenADS' ace64.dll next to the exe. Verified: links cleanly and xbrowse_ads.exe /auto exits 0 (the xBrowse drives customer.dbf through Harbour's rddads → OpenADS' ace64.dll). build64.cmd is the equivalent for FWH's bcc64 toolchain (untested here — needs librddads.a for bcc64). Adjust the FWDIR / HBDIR paths if your install differs from c:\fwteam / c:\harbour.

What it exercises

USE customer VIA "ADSCDX" → INDEX ON … TAG … (compound CDX through AdsCreateIndex/AdsCreateIndex90 over OpenADS) → xBrowse over the alias (reads field structure, navigates, re-sorts via OrdSetFocus) → DbCloseArea. The same ACE entry points a real FWH+rddads app hits, served by OpenADS' DLL.

Rules: first-party source only — do not check in FWH, Harbour, bcc64, or SAP ace*.dll/ace*.lib here.