Device Translation Table

A Device Translation Table is a Development Object that maps Uniface output to device-specific output formats for printers and character-based (CHUI) screens. It makes it possible for Uniface to support a wide variety of hardware platforms, including their output devices.

Characteristics

Characteristics

  

Object type code:

dtb

Main Development Object?

No

Part of:

Untyped Library

Contains:

Property

Generalization:

Development Object

Specializations:

—

Compilation Output:

DeviceTableName@LibraryName.dvc

Specialization

Device Translation Table specializes Development Object in the following ways:

  • It has a Library as parent object

  • It has no child development objects

For Windows platforms, device translation tables are used for enhanced printing but not for the GUI.