It's very useful when using Ed4W to add information related to your own application to Ed's "Progress Words and Templates" file.  This page shows a simple way to do this for database table names.

In addition to the standard types of "language words" defined by Ed4W, up to 9 "user" types are allowed.  In the default file that ships with Ed4W user types 1 through 3 are used for non-reserved keywords, non-keyword events, and metaschema and VST table names.  

To set up the fourth user type as a list of tables in your database, first copy this short program into the Progress procedure editor and run it (while connected to your database, of course):

output to "clipboard".
put unformatted
  ";Database tables~n"
  "[User 4]~n".
for each _file
    where _file._file-number > 0 and _file._file-number < 32000
    no-lock
    by _file._file-name:
  put unformatted _file._file-name "~n".
end.
output close.

Next open up "Progress Language Words and Templates" file in Ed4W (Options -> Language Words and Templates, while editing any Progress file) and paste the contents of the clipboard into the file just before the
[Preprocessor] tag.

 If your application uses global variables you may also want to list them as [User 5].

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Revised: July 04, 2005 .