FlexPro Professional
Introduction
FlexPro Professional includes the Microsoft Visual Basic For Applications (VBA) development environment. This allows you to create user interfaces and dialog boxes, set up import filters for your data formats and automate your analyses.
The object model provides you with access to all FlexPro functions. Creating your own applications with FlexPro Professional is easy because you can record as many operational steps as you want in a macro and then afterwards edit it using the Visual Basic Code Editor. The developer environment includes project management, a user-friendly editor with IntelliSense technology, the Visual Basic Forms dialog box editor and a powerful debugger. Microsoft Visual Basic is one of the most widely used programming languages in the world and is the tool of choice for millions of developers. Instead of proprietary scripting tools, you can use an industry standard and fall back on available resources. For example, you can use existing ActiveX controls to capture data or to access databases. VBA programs are processed into machine code very quickly.
The FlexPro object model is based on the Automation standard from Microsoft. This means that you can use a programming language of your choice such as Java, Delphi or C++ to automate FlexPro. Many Windows programs support automation, including Microsoft Office products. For instance, you can create an application that transfers data from Excel to FlexPro, analyses and creates a graphic display of the data in FlexPro and creates a Word document for the results.