Windows Programming for Everyone

Create Windows Desktop file folder for programs and data

Using Windows Notepad to create and modify programs

A Simple program using the SAY command

Rexx Reference Manual

Rexx interpreters

Using the TRACE command

Variables, Constants and Literals

Functions At Work

Running a Demo Program

Reading and Writing Files

Looping Through a Group of Program Lines

Viewing Program Output

More About How the Basic Rexx Program Works

Compose and Run Programs Showing

Comments

Tracing

Variables

Sysfiledelete

Compose and Run Programs Showing

Do loops

Lines()

Linein()

Lineout()

Compose and Run Programs Showing Windows Commands

Quickly Building New Rexx Programs

Sysfileexists()

Sourceline()

Using Windows Start

Closer Look at Making New Programs

Create Program to List the First Word of Each Input Line

Create Program to List the Last Word of Each Input Line

Create Program To Run Windows Commands

Stem variables

Pull and Parse Pull

Charout()

Enhancing the Run WIndows Commands Program

Do Forever

Call, Return and Program Labels

Creating the Sentence Program

Parse var

Strip()

Just How Close is Rexx to English

Here's the Assignment

call the new program RunAllRexx

1) create a program to list all the rexx programs and run them

2) show a menu with each program name

3) provide a selection of the program and how to run it

4) also provide a selection for editing the program

for edit, use notepad

for running the program, allow the choice of:

rexx.exe - runs the program normally (default if you double-click the name)

rexxpaws.exe - keeps the console window open at program end

rexxhide.exe - hides the console window

First of Three Looks at the RunAllRexx Program

More about

Call, Do, If

Concatenation

Rexxpaws

Second of Three Looks at the RunAllRexx Program

More about

Strip(), Right(), Left() and Length()

Select

Third of Three Looks at the RunAllRexx Program

More about

Documenting

Variable naming

End of line and continuation

Subroutines

Build Program to Extract Stock Names

More About

Reading Files and Saving Key Information

Datatype()

Sysstemsort()

Using Interactive Tracing to Understand How StocksList.rex works

More About Using Stem Variables

Here We Review One Last Overview Program

Review Many Common Commands

Look at LOOP and FORMAT

Review the First Group of Useful Programs

Review the Second Group of Useful Programs

Let's Review What We Learned