Asynchronous FDK Client (FDK8) connection to Frame Maker Process

[_Sylvia_Shan-May_]

Dear Sir:

Product: Windows Frame Maker 8, Windows FDK 8, Windows XP 2002, Service Pack 2, 1.99 GB of RAM.

1. If I would like to do a Frame Maker 8 created XDocBook XML file to RTF without manual intervention, like Open Frame Maker and do SaveAs as .rtf, I would like to know if write an Asynchronous FDK Client which could connect to the registered Frame Maker process and perform Open and SaveAs is the direction to go? If not, what should I do? Our project would like to run an batch process that can be called to do the conversion.

2. If followed all the steps, from pages 41 to 54, in FDK 7.2 Platform Guide, Windows. I compiled and run the sample program on pages 51-52. Things look good until line 42. The Frame Maker was up, but I got the "No connection: xxx" for my Frame Maker process after I called the "if (!F_ApiAlive())". The GUID for the registered process is "{0FAE997D-FCA0-4C84-8574-27676C0F4E79}". After line 38, I got "fae997d" for the pclsid. if the conversion is correct or wrong? What's might be the problem?

Thank you so much and I am looking forward to hearing from your answers.

Sylvia

[Russ Ward]

Hi Sylvia,

This is a tough question. While there are a few of us floating around here that work with the FDK, I don't hear too much talk about asynchronous client development. If you don't get an answer here, consider posting to the Frame development Yahoo forum at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Frame_dev

Russ

[_Sylvia_Shan-May_]

Hi Russ:

Thank you for your reply. After a few more twists, I made the connection between my asynchronous client and FM, and I got the positive return from "F_ApiAlive()". So that's great.

BTW, have you done any things like batch conversion for one file format to other file format, like from .XML to .rtf on Windows? If so, how do you do it?

Thanks a lot.

[Russ Ward]

Hi Sylvia,

I haven't really done that before. I think there are some other folks around that have, though.

Russ