Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Administration

Configuring thin SmartObject rendering

Progress Dynamics provides the ThinRenderingProcedure attribute to define the thin rendering procedure for a given object. Thin rendering procedures are defined for the following classes:

DynSDO — adm2/thinsdo.w
DynLookup — adm2/thinlookup.w
DynCombo — adm2/thincombo.w
DynBrow — ry/obj/rythinbrowb.w
DynView — ry/obj/rythinviewv.w

If this attribute is blank, Dynamics always uses the procedure specified by the RenderingProcedure attribute to render the object.

Dynamics provides the UseThinRendering session property to specify if Dynamics uses a defined (nonblank) thin rendering procedure to render a given object at run time. If this property is FALSE, Dynamics uses the procedure specified by RenderingProcedure to render the object.

UseThinRendering defaults to TRUE for the DynASClient and Default session types and defaults to FALSE for all other session types.

Thin dynamic SDOs cannot run on the server side because they are initialized on the server based on context passed from the client rather than reading the Repository. Thin SmartObjects must be initialized from the Repository.

Note: Even if UseThinRendering is set to TRUE for the DynAppServer session types, the RenderingProcedure attribute is used to set the SDOs ServerFileName instead of the ThinRenderingProcedure attribute.