I have a big ol' Richard V handprint on my posterior today from the spankings.

I will try not to speculate. I will try not to speculate. I will try not to speculate. I will try not to speculate.

Alan

Alan Churchill Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies" www.savian.net

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard A. DeVenezia Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:33 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Publishing your SAS codes in color!

Alan Churchill wrote: > SAS doesn't contract out development that I am aware of. I am also > pretty sure that the Enhanced Editor isn't an ActiveX component but a > SAS/AF code base.

EE is not code based in SAS/AF. EE is definitely ActiveX. How do you think Enterprise Guide has a slick source code editor ? It's EE component pluged into the EG framework! SAS DMS has in SAS/AF build mode has an experimental setting that causes the EE editor to be used instead of the original AF source editor. There are a few interfacing bugs (memory leaks?) in long running edit sessions, so one can only hope that future releases fix that and moves the feature into production.

However, there's not alot of public info on hooking up the EE component to make it arbitrarily useful to people other than inhouse SAS developers. Not to say someone couldn't figure it out.

You can insert an EE object in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and you can even insert an EE into a SAS/AF frame via the Insert OLE component. It is unfortunate that the AF component pallete does not contain a separate icon for "SAS Enhanced Editor". You could have a html page that calls out an EE object and displays SAS code syntax highlighted (don't know if there are accessible parameters or object methods/properties (javascript) for pumping code into the object though) -- the page consumer would have to have EE installed though. I even tried to use it within a Win32 Delphi app. Despite being able insert the object, I have not figured out how to do anything with it (such as programmatically inserting code, etc...).

Since SAS likely has the EE source, there is no technical reason why it can't be redeployed as a plug-in in other frameworks, such as Eclipse.

-- Richard A. DeVenezia http://www.devenezia.com/