APL2000 User Conference (1999)

Contents of the APL2000 1999 User Conference Proceedings
Read the APL2000 1999 User Conference Report Here are the 30 or so Papers in this 400 pages Conference Proceedings document:
Agenda
What's New in APL+Win 3.6 Beta Eric Baelen An in-depth discussion of using the new features available in APL+Win version 3.6
VML - What, Where, Why, How? Adrian Smith Microsoft's implementation of the World Wide Web proposal for drawing lines, shaded polygons and texts directly on your Web page, with no need to include images
Taking the migraine out of Migration Walter G. Fil A discussion of the considerations of moving a DOS or Mainframe application to Windows. A GDDM emulator was used for the conversion.
Using Resources in APL+Win Brian Chizever Make your application more professional by including all of your bitmaps, icons, wav files in a single resource file. All of the tools needed to create a resource DLL and examples of its use.
Nature and Perils of Floating Point Calculations Mark Osborne When 2x2 does not equal 4: .2x2 .0400000000000000008
Porting Mainframe Applications to PC Adam Kertesz and Steve Halasz The session will share the lessons during the conversion of porting a client's mainframe APL application to the PC using a GDDM emulator.
Managing Long Running Calculations Rick Butteworth Learn to interrupt long running calculations with the options to display intermediate results, resume or cancel without lost work
APL+CD John Walker Learn the basics of Internet communications as you build an application to get CD Album Titles, Artist Name and Track Names from the Internet
Characters, Codes, Glyphs, Fonts and Unicode Bill Rutiser An introduction to the representation, processing, exchange and display of non-ASCII text such as APL characters
The 14 Myths of APL Gary Bergquist APL has been called a dead language. This fatalistic view lingers because of the general acceptance of 14 myths pertaining to APL. In this talk, the myths are presented and dispelled, laying bare the future prospects of APL.
Open Here APL Web Site Fred Waid A Web Site completely written in APL. Learn the tricks and techniques of its construction and how you can benefit from it.
An Outsider's view of the Inside of Nested Arrays Roy Sykes Knowing how APL stores nested arrays can help you use them more efficiently. Roy covers the internal representation of arrays and gives general guidelines as to the tradeoffs in using them.
Data Access Technologies Jeremy Main Use the Microsoft Jet Database Engine from APL+Win to create, update and edit a .MDB file including changing table definitions, bulk update and managing transactions.
Making It to Paper Marvin Renich A set of utilities to control various aspects of printing from Listview, Treeview or RichEdit controls. Control orientation, copies, paper tray, etc.
Fast Track to a Good Web Site Carl House Learn about tools in use to maintain 4000 web pages. APL functions write Java and HTML code. Many tools freely downloadable. Discuss design criteria, promotion and measurement.
APL and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Warren Baelen The ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) programming model is Microsoft's strategic, high level interface to all kinds of data. Learn the basics of ADO and how to access it from APL.
Managing APL Code Patrick Parks Methods to use commercially available code management systems with APL based workspaces is discussed. Sample functions for one such system (Visual SourceSafe) are provided.
User-Defined Controls Eric Lescasse A look into the creation of a suite of user-defined controls by Eric Lescasse of Lescasse Consulting
Using Excel as a Front-End to APL+Win Eric Baelen Version 3.6 of APL+Win now supports events from Excel so it can be more easily used as a front end to an APL application. A sample application is presented.
User Interface: Evolution or Intelligent Design Colyn Phillips A look at a real-world case of creating the user interface to select options for a product's nes feature
Managing a Large tree Chris Lee Softmed Systems', methodology to manage information from a many thousand branch tree makes it easy and intuitive to users and efficient and robust for the application
An APL Application for Powerpoint and Agent Tom Atkins Use APL+Win to control a Powerpoint presentation. Add MS Agent characters and interactive forms to hold users attention
APL Rules and the Future of Internet Fred Waid The Internet has as many features as there are people who use it. One thing is certain, APL is the defining moment and can be the definitive language of Internet application creation.
APL in the Colombian Banking System Luiz Caro, President, Finac Ltd
Using 32-bits Windows API with @WCALL
Creating Excel Worksheets in APL

Disks included in the APL2000 1999 Conference Proceedings

Disk 1	APL+Win 3.5.03 Patch Disk 1 of 2
Disk 2	APL+Win 3.5.03 Patch Disk 2 of 2
Disk 3	APL+Win 3.6 Beta
Disk 4	APL2000 1999 User Conference - Help Files
Disk 5	APL2000 1999 User Conference - Demos & Utilities