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http://www.gar.no/glinkj/help/use/index.htm
Explanation:
The above is a link to Glink (JAVA) version of the program, were a lot gets
explained (eg just overlook + bypass the not very important JAVA mumbo if its
printed on a page) and all of these well explained functionalities (+more) are
also present in their Windows version.
(go to the main website below for -more- info on the Windows version).
Comparising:
Automate is a 'poor' macro program/scheduler only.
Glink is a terminal emulator program, a program that communicates with
and displays 'host' applications (API's, eg usualy db's: databases)), API's,
that run as the "host" application on (seperate) servers, and Glink uses most of
the today's standard Communication Protocols (eg TCP/IP, ASCII, DDE,OLE etc.)
for its communication lines and its terminal (display) program, and includes
(comes with) its own scripting language.
This unique Glink's own developped scripting language can also perform the same
macro's and also most Visual Basic(VB) actions. And seperate, via C or VB
(+other languages), created DLL's and EXE's can be added as Add-Ons (Tools)
to the program/script, and these are then stored/installed in the "C:\Glink\Ext"-folder
(Ext = extensions).
Actualy, coming to think of it, the Glink script language is best described
as a (language) BASIC dialect.
Glink can also call on objects via its OBJECT function(=directly), but can also
communicate with GUI-functions available from/on other applications WorkMenu's
and window's contents (=indirectly).
It will just send keystrokes to make its selections and to later perform its actions.
VB(and VBA) are object depended and oriented 'simple' (compared to C etc.)
programming languages, that can (like Glink) directly and can also indirectly
communicate with a program's GUI.
So Glink (as well as VB) combine VB + macro power found in other programs
into one(1) scriptable BASIC (dialect) language.
VBA is sort of also capable to do this (VBA is a VB-dialect where VB on its
turn is a BASIC dialect), but VBA is also very application(i.e. Excel) dependend.
Glink is platform and application independent (runs on HPUX, Unix,Linux,MAC,Windows etc.).
Glink automaticaly compiles+error checks+returns debug msgs before executing any script
(eg errors found in script can be easely traced and corrected before continuation of executing
the script).
Glink can also seperatly compile its scripts with the COMPILE function, eg to create DLL's
and/or EXE's.
(though decompiling these files is not available in program, so Ascii-txt copies of the
original scripts will always have to be made, eg to enable user to later make any future
-perhaps nessecairy- alterations to script).
And put in a simplistic (BASIC) way, it reminds me a lot of the old DOS's (batch) lango, eg
Run <path> <program.extension> <parameter/switch>
Glink's script commands are single words only (like standard BASIC), with "only" additional
parameters and switches (optionaly) added (and somewhat unlike VB with
its "lengthy" statements for script lines).
I am going to experiment with Glink using MetaStock as the host API, eg Glink as the SHELL
(program) around MSK (eg like Windows is the SHELL around DOS).
Knowing that this creation is 'real time' (OLE) already possible in Excel, then............................
And that's also where the 'danger' lies for/in Metastock's future:
" all of these type of host programs (API's-see explanation at the top) were -in time-
(+most of the time) also always succeeded/superseeded by richer, faster, better
& superior hosts (API) programs (and most of the time also always stemming from
other sources/companies too, eg from other -not so esthablished- companies".
(Ask the BAAN or SAP and alike companies for programs that they have -in time-
developped and -that have now- outsmarted the other older -but not ever upgrading-
"settled" API's, eg host API's that were previously dominating the markets).
It is also certainly worth to experiment (in the above described SHELL-fashion way) with
the TAS program being used for SHELL's underlay.
Though, TAS (as yet) hasn't got a Y2K-comp version on the market, it sure has some
nice easy indicator formula's to play around with, of which the TRENDLINE( a,s,e )
and TRENDPAR( a,t,s ) (eg Trend Channels) formula's sure stick out (are my favourites).
TAS home:
Technical Analysis Scanner by FlexSoft
TAS v6.13 for Windows
http://www.flexsoft.com/
Equis home:
MetaStock v6.5 for Windows
http://www.equis.com/
GAR home:
Glink v6.2 for Windows
http://www.gar.no/
Tego home:
Look into the future now
http://www.tegoweb.com/Samples/main.htm
Regards,
Ton Maas
ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dismiss the ".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying and
note the new address change. Also for my Homepage
http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas
----- Original Message -----
From: Lionel
To: "A.J. Maas"
Sent: donderdag 9 december 1999 5:28
Subject: Re: Support = required
> Ton:
>
> I'm sending this as a private e-mail
>
> 1. Where can I get more information on the Glink program? How does it
> compare with automate?
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