SAS/AF®: Components, Frames and Utilities

Richard A. DeVenezia
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Column Properties Item Cost (modelscl)

General Tips

Enhanced Editor(AF) SAS Explorer

ViewTable

Custom Command Manager Copy Selection BuildDF - Dataform SaveDF - Dataform

SAS Explorer

Column Properties

Export Catalog Sources

Common

Complex List Editor Simple List Editor Green Bars Enter Value List of Values Navigate Dataset Hierarchy SCL List Class Extension
with SubList sorting Checklist Class SCL List Model Extension
for Viewing SCL Lists Filtered SCL List

Examples

Item Cost (modelscl)

Timer Class Export Catalog Sources Tetris Model / Viewer Dialog Functions Tree View Control List View Control SAS Registry Browser Metaselector... Maintaining Aspect Singletons Textpad Control Pie Control Collections Word Tables

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SAS/AF® software:
Components, Frames and Utilities

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General tips

Tips regarding GenDoc, enhanced editor, class defining scl, exporting scl, and exploring folders

ViewTable

Thoughts - developing a custom command processing environment
Copy Selection - copy selected cells for pasting into Excel, Word or other applications.
BuildDF - work on dataforms without lots of useless frames
SaveDF - nothing yet, idea is to save viewer customizations in a dataform

Common tools

Green Bars for ViewTable and Data Table Class
Enter Value dialog is a useful reuseable component
List Of Values composite class. Let a user maintain their own list of values
Navigate Levels of a Data Set Hierarchy. Use this model/viewer technology to simplify your development efforts
SCL List Class extension can sort a List of Lists by a NamedItem value or a List of Objects by an attribute value
Check List Class implements a work area that is filled with check boxes at run-time
SCL List Model helps you explore SCL lists
Filtered Lists let you show only what you want seen
Coming maybe never: SAS/Share Proc OPERATE Front End. Score points with your overworked sysadmin

Examples

Model/Viewer - a no code demonstration of the power of the MV technology
Dialog Functions - sample each of the SCL functions that invokes a dialog of some sort.
Tree View Control - subclassing, recursion, storing and loading trees
List View Control - a frame with two examples
SAS Registry Browser - an Explorer like interface for examing SAS registry entries
Abandoned: Metaselector - an all in one class that does the same as liblist(), dirlist(), catlist(), varlist()
Aspect ratio - make an object keep a constant aspect
Singletons - look ma, one hand!
Textpad Control - read a file and copy selected sections via context menu
Pie Control - a frame with pie charts in a stack

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This page was last updated 23 March 2004.

Comments

Madi	Saturday, November 14 2015, 10:04 am
Good stuff and I would have thought we can add some variables, like using attrib to create an empty data set so that we can use this table in eg proc append
Al Chicago	Friday, August 27 2010, 05:34 pm
I am having a problem opeing SA/AF catalog build in SAS 9.13 using my new 9.2 version. Any suggestion?
Satish Bangalaore, India	Saturday, February 7 2009, 12:35 pm
Hi, This is Satish Kottamasu from Bangalore, working for a pharma company and having 3+ years of clinical SAS programming expirence. I am looking for developing an application which is useful for my "Time Sheet". Below are the basic requirements of my time sheet. 1. Need to select the protocol. 2. Enter the Programmer Name. 3. A drop down menu which as list of items to be selected as a) Tables b) Listings c) Deriving dataset. . . . 4. Time consumed for a particular task. so on. The whole data is collected from an front-end application develop from SAS/AF and storing the data in the dataset. I need your suggestion and guidance on how to approach to reach my target. Note: Please suggest me some reference set of papers or documents other than online doc, which is helpful for beginners who knows only BASE SAS. Thanks for all your valuable time taken to read this mail. Thanks & Regards, Satish K.
Syamali Ray Cupertino CA	Monday, November 20 2006, 03:21 pm
I want to know about SAS AF and SCL. Can it be possible to suggest any book or Software so that I can buy and learn it.Please suggest me an authentic book of SAS Macro.
Nat Cary	Monday, October 16 2006, 12:52 pm
Great! Provides enough information for beginners
Vikas Arora New Delhi (India)	Tuesday, February 7 2006, 03:53 am
Can it be possible to have a GUI interface in SAS. I use SAS V8. for instance :- I have a customer X , after inserting the Value X in that interface I want to have a Frequency report showing the information for the X. Thanks Vikas Arora
Hitesh Sharma New Delhi, India	Monday, September 26 2005, 01:15 am
I tried submit block to run a sas code and produce listing output to a file using ODS. I see no signs of execution. My submit block is in the INIT block of a Frame SCL. I am just compiling, running the frame, and closing it. I see nothing in the SAS log and the file also is not created. INIT: submit continue EDIT; ods listing file = 'C:\sasdata\AFSample\output.txt'; proc print data = aflib.employee_data; run; ods listing file = ''; endsubmit; return; Can you please help.
RK Blore	Friday, July 1 2005, 05:13 pm
The introduction about SAS/AF and the link provided was very useful to me, Thank you.
An anonymous soul USA	Thursday, December 23 2004, 09:46 am
I'd like to know more about SAS/AF as it is a requirement for some job openings. I have about 2 1/2 yrs SAS programming experience and consider myself a decent but not great programmer. Can you recommend anything to help me learn about SAS/AF without having an employer's resources at my disposal to send me to training? Thanks. p.s. nice web site. Thanks for the compliment. SAS/AF is an extremely flexible and powerful application development platform. While it requires a heavy client of a Base SAS install in order to run an AF application, when you can deploy in that environment it is super great. A simple AF frame can probably built in less than an hour by a novice. If you have any experience in JBuilder, Visual anything .NET, Delphi, Netbeans, etc... then SAS/AF Build mode should be quite comfortable to work in and a simple first frame would take less than 10 minutes. The online help is pretty darn good. There is alot to read, many conference papers have been written on introductory and advanced SAS/AF topics. A good place to search is at Lex Jansen's site. There are a couple of books out there, one is by Don Stanley. The best thing for learning SAS/AF is to come up with a suitably simple but not totally mickey mouse problem, and just try to solve it with AF. The road before you is well paved, and it would take a long while to get to the more tricky parts of AF. There are an abundance of Classes to work with, as well as language statements. All the BASE functions and call routines are available. At some point you will want to take the time to learn about SCL lists, one of the most powerful constructs of AF that is not present in DATA Step. However, if you ever need to run a data or proc step, it is as simple as submit continue; ... Base SAS code as if you were in Program Editor ... endsumit; Sometimes a programmers first steps in AF are converting a WINDOW or %WINDOW to a FRAME.
Emily BeiJing	Tuesday, October 26 2004, 05:06 am
This is very useful to me, thank you!
Rub�n Zaragoza, Spain	Wednesday, June 30 2004, 06:04 am
I'm a student and I have a problem with SAS/AF development, because I want to integrate an external executable file in the frames of my project, could someone help me?
Richard DeVenezia Remsen, NY	Thursday, November 15 2001, 01:34 am
Enjoy. Feedback is encouraged.