Training

Graphical interface structure and components; navigation, focus, availability and selection concepts; creation and use of Window, Menu, Form and Display objects; dealing with the Zim graphical widgets and their behavior; using events, actions and Zim control structures; tabbed forms creation and use; modal and non-modal application structures, where and how to use them; controlling Zim parallel processes; inter-process communication; graphical interface utilities.

The Zim database structure; data files internal structure; data tree and index tree; the three different access mechanisms; access costs; transactions and locks; EIO and Btree operations; configuration parameter use related to transactions; multi range and large file locks; the Locktrace option and its use; database auditing and data recovery; database access strategy; database access optimization

New concepts and their counterpart in the 4.x version; events versus transmission keys; the control structures Event, ThisForm, ThisWindow, etc; New objects, components and functions; Event driven applications versus the traditional programming; migration strategies; migrating just the application look; migrating look and feel; Behavioral differences between versions; using version 4.x databases with Zim applications

Components; what it is and how it works COM/DCOM; OLE objects; ActiveX objects; in place and linked activation; methods, properties and object events; Zim support to ActiveX objects; Zim OLE widgets for ActiveX objects creation and uses; handling the interface and object events in Zim; using ActiveX object examples

Host-based versus client-server architectures – differences, advantages and disadvantages; Zim Integrated Server (ZIS) basics; Installing and configuring ZIS; Preparing the target (server) database and the clients; Starting and stopping the Zim Server; Simultaneous multiple server; Creating Zim Server new instances; migrating to client-server notes and recommendations; Using server Documents and the $ServerFunction; Zim CGI basics and components; Installing and configuring the Zim CGI; Starting and stopping the ZIMCGI; Zim and HTML interface programming examples; Transaction and session oriented applications; Security layers; The ZIS ODBC driver basics; using the ZIS ODBC to access Zim databases from different third party applications; Using ZIS ODBC to access Zim from ASP applications

Zim components; setting up Zim databases and environments; Zim file use, distribution and structure; transactions and lock mechanisms; managing production and development environments; transaction audit files; database manual and automatic recovery; available configuration options and their use; Zim utilities to manage databases; reorganizing Zim databases; Zim terminal definitions – zimtcap utility in Unix.

Data access basics; the Zim Strategy Analyzer basics and algorithm; examples of use and how to optimize data access

Zim Object Manager basics; object properties and keywords; object dependency; object selection criteria; locking objects for update; object import and export procedure; using the shadow object dictionary; team development with Zim Object Manager