Converting a PL7 application into a Control Expert application generates certain correspondences which are described in the following paragraphs.
No conversion of the printed parts (title pages, headers, and footers) is possible between PL7 and Control Expert, because, in PL7, no page setup file is saved on the disk after the generation of a document.
The animation tables are automatically converted into Control Expert format by the PL7 application converter.
The list of PL7 variables contained in each animation table is replaced by the corresponding list of Control Expert variables.
NOTE: if a PL7 variable has no Control Expert equivalent, an error will be signaled in the conversion report file
The animation tables are automatically converted into Control Expert format by the PL7 application converter.
The list of PL7 variables contained in each runtime screen is replaced by the corresponding list of Control Expert variables.
NOTE: if a PL7 variable has no Control Expert equivalent, an error will be signaled in the conversion report file
NOTE: the files which describe the runtime screens are contained in the sub-folders whose addresses are specified in the .fef source file. The conversion procedure from PL7 to Control Expert maintains this structure.
