Compaq Visual Fortran OVERVIEW

Introducing
Compaq Visual Fortran
www.compaq.com
®
 Offers a combination of:

 The robustness and reliability of Compaq’s Fortran
95 compiler
®

The easy-to-use Microsoft visual development
environment
 32-bit Development System for x86 (Intel® , AMD®,
…) PCs running:

Windows® 2000
 Windows NT® 4
 Windows 98
 Windows 95
 The Compaq Fortran Compiler
 Full support of the Fortran 95 Standard*

Compaq Fortran (formerly DIGITAL® Fortran) and
Microsoft Fortran language extensions for easy
code portability among platforms
* Previous standards (Fortran 90, FORTRAN 77, FORTRAN IV) are also supported
 Offers Portability from other Platforms
 Microsoft-recommended upgrade for PowerStation
4.0 users

Provides a consistent Fortran language dialect
from desktop to mainframe-class systems
 Compatible with Fortran code written for other
Compaq Fortran platforms:

– Compaq Tru64 UNIX® Alpha
TM
– Linux® Alpha
– OpenVMS Alpha
TM
 Microsoft visual development environment
 Windows-based application development

Visual editor with color coded syntax highlighting
 Visual debugger
 Context-sensitive online documentation
 Same development environment used by Microsoft
Visual C++® V6
 Visual development tools
 Debugger

Source Code Browser
 Windows resource editor
 Fortran Module Wizard for working with COM Objects

Fortran COM Server Wizard for creating COM
servers (Professional and Enterprise Editions)
 Graphical viewer for visualizing multi-dimensional
arrays (Professional and Enterprise Editions)
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Project-based Development
 Visual Fortran organizes application source files
by grouping code, libraries, and windows
resources together in one entity: the project
 Facilitates Windows and Mixed-Language
programming
Visual Fortran Can Build
Several Kinds of Projects
To create a new project, click New

from the File menu.
The following screen appears,

displaying available project types.
A Fortran Console application is a
traditional text-oriented interface
that can use most Win32® APIs
Fortran Windows Applications are

GUI applications with full access
to the Win32 APIs
The QuickWin environment

provides an easy way to give
existing Fortran applications a
Windows “look and feel”
If you have the Microsoft Visual C++ or

the Visual Fortran Professional or
Enterprise Editions installed, additional
project types will be listed (not shown on
this screen).
You can also develop Fortran

static and dynamic link
libraries
Fortran COM Server
With the Professional or Enterprise

Editions, you can develop
Fortran-based COM Servers
 Visual Fortran is available for x86 PC systems running
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows
95 operating systems. Visual Fortran uses the same
development environment on all operating systems:
– Compiler
– Debugger
– Source Code Browser
– Fortran Module Wizard
– Fortran COM Server Wizard
– Array Visualizer
– Online Documentation
Version 6.5 New Features
 New Features for Version 6.5:
 Architecture-specific support for Pentium III, AMD K6, AMD
K6-2/K6-III, and AMD Athlon processors
 Fortran COM Server project type and Fortran COM Server
Wizard (in Professional and Enterprise Editions) simplify
creating Fortran-based COM servers. You can create in-
process servers that use custom or dual interfaces

New COM routines COMStringFromGUID and
COMIsEqualGUID

New and changed intrinsics:
– INT_PTR_KIND returns the KIND for an integer that is large enough
to hold an address
– POPCNT, POPPAR, LEADZ, and TRAILZ
– Optional KIND argument to LEN, SHAPE, SIZE, LBOUND, and
UBOUND
Version 6.5 New Features
 New exception handling routines CLEARSTATUSFPQQ and
GETEXCEPTIONPTRSQQ (x86 systems)
 New environment variable FORT_CONVERT_ext for
unformatted non-native files
 Support added to read nondelimited character strings as
input for character NAMELIST items
 DLLEXPORT and DLLIMPORT of variables now allow
export/import of module variables and arrays.

Concurrent-use licensing is now available

Many new sample programs

Faster processing of modules at compile time
New Features in Version 6
 In addition to v6.5 new features, earlier Visual
Fortran V6 releases included hundreds of new
and improved features, which include:
 Full Fortran 95 Standard support.
 Optional diagnostics flag features deemed
"obsolescent" or "deleted" (such features are still

supported by the compiler).
 New optimization features can significantly improve
application performance over V5, including
architecture-specific optimizations.
 Full traceback reporting on severe errors with file
names, routine names, and line numbers.

 Dialog support now includes modeless dialogs and
additional controls, including ActiveX® controls,

progress, tab, and spin controls.
 Microsoft's newest visual development environment,
featuring seamless integration with Microsoft Visual

C++ V6, makes it easy to develop and debug mixed-
language applications.
 New Fortran application wizards help you get started
on new projects.
 You can save Fortran project settings for later use
when creating new projects of the same project type.

 Compaq Extended Math Library (CXML) is now
provided, including over 1500 mathematical routines.

 Compaq Array Visualizer (in Professional and
Enterprise Editions only) provides an interactive

graphic view of your application's array data.
Traceback Reporting
 When a Fortran program terminates due to a severe
error condition, the Fortran run-time system displays
a report of the calling sequence leading to the error.
This tabular report contains one line per call stack
frame and includes at least the image name and a
hexadecimal program counter (PC) in that image.
Traceback Reporting
 When you request traceback information during
compilation, the report contains program counter to
source file line correlation information in the displayed
error message report. The file names, routine names,
and line numbers simplify the task of locating the
cause of severe run-time errors.
A traceback report might appear as follows:
The stack frame of real interest is the first frame in

image teof.exe, which shows that the error originated
in the routine named AGAIN in source module
teof.for at line 21
Compaq Extended Math Library (CXML)
 Compaq Extended Math Library (CXML) provides:
 Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library
– Industry-standard Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, including
Level 1 (vector-vector, BLAS1), Level 2 (matrix-vector, BLAS2),
and Level 3 (matrix-matrix, BLAS3), BLAS Level 1 Extensions,
and Sparse BLAS Level 1.

Signal Processing library
– Provides a basic set of signal processing functions, including
one-, two-, and three-dimensional Fast Fourier Transforms
(FFT), group FFTs, Cosine/Sine Transforms (FCT/FST),
Convolution, Correlation, and Digital Filters.

Sparse Linear System library
– Provides both direct and iterative sparse linear system solvers.
The direct solver package supports both symmetric and
nonsymmetric sparse matrices stored using the skyline storage
scheme. The iterative solver package contains a basic set of
storage schemes, preconditioners, and iterative solvers.
Compaq Extended Math Library (CXML)
 LAPACK subprograms
– Industry-standard subprogram package offering an extensive set
of linear system and eigenproblem solvers. LAPACK uses
blocked algorithms that are better suited to most modern
architectures.

Utility subprograms
– Provides random number generation, vector math functions, and
sorting subprograms.
 CXML is also available for other Compaq Fortran Alpha
platforms (see http://www.compaq.com/math)
 To call CXML routines from Visual Fortran, add the following
INCLUDE statement:
INCLUDE 'CXML_INCLUDE.F90’
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Fortran
 Learn about Visual Fortran Professional Edition
 Learn about the Compaq Array Visualizer
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Building a Project: qwpaint
 We will now use Compaq Visual Fortran to build
a Fortran QuickWin application named qwpaint
 This sample application draws simple colored
shapes with the mouse

 Along the way we’ll be using the Debugger and
Browser to help us fix a problem in our program
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Welcome to the visual development
environment!
The visual development environment allows you to compile
and run your Fortran application with a click of a button
Before we begin, we will customize the visual

development environment’s appearance
to suit our needs
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The toolbars can be repositioned
within the visual development environment
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Other useful windows can
be displayed as well
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The Output window displays
compile and link errors as
well as debugging information
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Choose the File | New... menu
item to create a new Project
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The “New” dialog box...
Don’t forget to name
your project
Choose Fortran QuickWin

Application as the kind of
project to build You can specify in
which directory it is
placed (or accept the
default location)
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In our application, we’ll use
multiple windows
Select the Windows interface best suited to your application
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Now we will add some
files to the project
The qwpaint project

has been opened.
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Insert Files into a Project...
Use this dialog box to select

the source files for the project.
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As a default, the editor highlights
Fortran keywords in blue
and comments in green
The files are listed under Source

Files in the Project Window.
To edit a file, double-click its name.
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After adding files to a
project, select each new
file in the FileView pane Clicking the build button
and select Compile from or choosing
the Build menu. Build | Build qwpaint.exe will
compile and link this project
Information about the build

will be displayed here
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The qwpaint Project It looks like we
requires qwpaint.mod have a syntax error.
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Double clicking on the error
message or pressing F4 brings
the editor to the erroneous line
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Now that the problem has
been fixed, rebuild the project
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Let’s run the application
Oh good, everything built
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This is what our
application looks like
The mouse draws

shapes in this window
Over here, you can

adjust the shape
and its color
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It looks like we have a bug This area should
in our program! have 16 different
colored squares.
Like this!
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Now we need to debug our program.
The visual development environment

makes this easy, though.
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But where do we begin?
From this comment, we can guess

that the bug occurs in the
subroutine DrawControlGrid()
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We’d like to locate
DrawControlGrid()
in the code.
We could do a text search

for DrawControlGrid()...
…but that would be slow and

could become complicated
if we had to search through
a number of files.
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We can use the “Find in Files”
tool to search a number
of files for a certain string
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“Find in Files…”
The text to search for...
…where to look for the files
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Results of the search are
displayed in this window
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“Find in Files” finds all occurrences of a
given string, but we’d like to know more.
Specifically, we’d like to know where

DrawControlGrid() is defined.
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For this task we can use
Visual Fortran’s
Source Code Browser
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To use the source code browser,
we need to adjust the project settings
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The “Project Settings” dialog box...
Settings must be changed

under the “Fortran” and
“Browse Info” tabs
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The “Project Settings” dialog box...
The project settings

dialog box also allows
you to generate listing
and assembly files.
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Rebuild your project to
generate browser
information
…then in the Tools
menu choose Source
Browser to start
browsing
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You can browse This is the main
information Browser dialog box
about any identifier
in your source
code. We want to
know about
DrawControlGrid
You can get

information
about variable
declaration and
usage, call Since the Fortran language is
structure, and file not case-sensitive, be sure to
hierarchy. uncheck the “case-sensitive”
check box!
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Clicking “OK” brings up this box
This window lists all of the Double-click on any of these

places in your code in which entries to go to that line
DrawControlGrid() occurs of source code
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We want to know where
DrawControlGrid is defined.
Double-click on the definition...
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…and the Browser takes you
right to the code
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If we look at the code for
DrawControlGrid(), we see
that the grid is drawn here
The function setcolor is called

to change the color
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We’d like to know more about
the setcolor QuickWin function.
We can use the HTML Help Viewer

online documentation to get information
about setcolor.
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Click the word we’d like
to know more about...
and press the F1

key to search
the online help.
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This dialog box searches
the online help.
Click Display to view
the help page
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A new window opens to allow you to view
the online documentation.
Information about function

parameters and return values.
Description of usage
and functionality available in
“Remarks”
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Links to other online
documentation
Many help topics come

with example code
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You can browse the online help
by clicking on the various topics
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We think that the bug occurs
somewhere in this code
Let’s use the Visual Fortran

debugger to see what
happens during execution
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Click the hand to
Click this button set a breakpoint
to start debugging at the current
cursor position
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This arrow points to the
next line to be executed
The visual development environment

has changed into debugging mode
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This window allows you to view
the values of local variables.
Over here, you can watch the
value of a certain variable.
Records and arrays can

be viewed in their entirety
with just the click of a button
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You can step through the
program by clicking this icon
Variable values are

updated automatically
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After some more debugging, we find
the answer to our problem.
By examining the values of i, j, and i2,

we determine that the argument to
setcolor should be i*4+j not i*4+i
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…we can ..and rebuild
stop
debugging...
Now that we have changed

our source code...
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No errors! Let’s run our application
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Our problem
has been fixed
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Building a Project: qwpaint
 We used Visual Fortran to build an application
that used the QuickWin graphics libraries
 The source files were organized using a project
 We used the context-sensitive feature of the
online documentation
 The Browser and Debugger helped us fix a
couple of problems with our program
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Fortran
Building a DLL
 Functions in dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) are not
loaded until they are called at run-time
 Using DLLs reduces the size of executables and
modularizes source code
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Building a DLL
 We will now use Visual Fortran to construct a
DLL
 The DLL will be written using fixed-source form
syntax, but its functions will be called in programs

written in Fortran 95 and C++
 Even though Microsoft Visual C++ 6 is purchased
separately from Visual Fortran, both products

share the same development environment!
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Building a DLL
 Our application will be called spline because our
DLL contains functions that perform a spline
analysis on data
 spline also introduces the concept of visual
development environment workspaces.

Workspaces allow several projects to be grouped
together.
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Building a DLL
 spline demonstrates mixed language
programming using Visual Fortran and Visual
C++
 Installing Visual C++ adds options to the visual
development environment that are not applicable to
Visual Fortran
– Different kinds of Projects to build
– C++ tools
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Building a DLL
 The spline Workspace consists of three Projects:
 splinedll - a DLL containing routines that perform a
spline analysis on data

splineqw - a Visual Fortran QuickWin application
that calls routines in splinedll.dll
 splinevc - a Visual C++ program that uses the
routines in splinedll.dll
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To create a new workspace,
choose File | New...
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We’ll create a Fortran Dynamic
Link Library project...
…called splinedll...
…and simultaneously create a

workspace for our project
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Choose “an empty DLL
application” in the app-wizard
dialogue...
…and click “Finish”...
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The App Wizard
creates an empty
workspace for our
project.
Let’s add some files to the

splinedll project
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Insert the spline.for file
into the splinedll project
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The visual development
environment editor formats
itself for editing fixed-form
Fortran source code
spline.for contains two functions,

SplineCalculate() and SplineEvaluate(),
which determine the spline curve
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Build the DLL just like
you would any other
project
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Now we’re going to build splineqw,
a Fortran QuickWin program
that uses splinedll.dll
--------------------Configuration: spldll - Win32 Debug--------------------

spline.dll - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
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We’ll create a Fortran Quick Win
project...
…called splineqw...
…and include it into our current

workspace
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Select the Windows interface that best suits your application
Choose the
windowing
options that And the
best suit your Wizard inserts
application the new
project into
your
workspace
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…we’ll add
Now that some files to it
we’ve created
the splineqw
project...
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Locate the file you wish to insert
Be sure to insert it into

the correct project
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Fspline.f90 uses the
QuickWin graphics
library to draw a spline
curve that fits some data
points
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Before we can build
Splineqw.exe, we have
to link in file
splinedll.lib
We can do that by Instead of adding the link path,

adding the (relative) you can add the splinedll.lib file
path here in the Project to the project by using the Add to
settings dialog Project … Files item in the
Project menu
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Before we can run
splineqw.exe, we must
be sure that the system
can find splinedll.dll
The simplest way to assure this is

to physically move (or copy)
splinedll.dll into the directory
which contains our executable file,
splineqw.exe
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Build splineqw.exe
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In splineqw the user clicks on a
window and a spline curve is
displayed that best fits the
clicked points
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Next we’ll use Visual
C++ to build a new
Windows application
that uses splinedll.dll
We can perform mixed-

language programming using
Visual Fortran and Visual C++
in the same development
environment
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We’ll create a Visual C++
Win32 application
…called splinevc...
…and include it into our current

workspace
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Choose to build an empty project...
…and the AppWizard finishes the job
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Splinevc uses the
Microsoft Foundation
Classes to create a
user interface
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We must specify that we are using
the Microsoft Foundation Classes
under Project Settings
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Instead of adjusting the link
settings, splinedll.lib can be added
directly to the project!
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Before you attempt to build
any project, make sure it is
set as the Active Project
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Now we are ready to
build splinevc.exe Splinevc runs similarly
to splineqw
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The MFC application
has a different look to
it...
…but it performs the

same task
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Building a DLL
 We used Visual Fortran to build a dynamic link
library that contained functions to perform a
spline analysis
 Within the same Workspace we built two
applications that used the DLL: one written in

Fortran and the other in C++
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Working with COM Objects
 Many windows applications provide a means of
accessing their functionality from another
program
 The Component Object Model (COM) is one such
mechanism
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 COM is a language independent object model
designed for application interaction

But the Fortran language does not support objects
 The Visual Fortran Module Wizard allows you to
integrate COM objects into your Fortran
application development
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 The Module Wizard creates Fortran module files
that provide an interface to functions used to
access COM objects
 The Fortran Module Wizard helps you create
Fortran applications (clients) that use existing COM
or Automation servers
 The Professional and Enterprise editions include
the ability to create an in-process COM server

(described in the section Visual Fortran
Professional Edition).
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 We will now build a Console application that uses
the Module Wizard to access a COM Object
 dlines uses the visual development environment
itself to modify a Fortran source file

 Replaces “debug characters” in column 1 with
conditional compilation IF DEFINED directives
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 dlines calls COM routines from Developer Studio
that:

Start the visual development environment running
 Open a file within the visual development
environment
 Perform editing functions on the open file
– replace text, go to the next line, etc.

 Save the file
 Close the application
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First we need to make
a new Project
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Named dlines
New Fortran Console Application
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Choose to build an empty project...
…and the AppWizard finishes the job
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Now let’s use the Module Choose Fortran
Wizard to create the Module Wizard
interface to the visual from the Tools
development environment’s menu
COM functions
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The Visual Fortran Module Wizard
We’ll be getting information
from a COM interface
Our Fortran module

will be named dsapp
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C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\COMMON\MSDEV98\BIN\DEVSHL.DLL (Visual C++ Shared Objects)
Use the Visual C++

Shared Objects
You can specify which

COM Interfaces you
want access to
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Might as well have access

Generate the Fortran to all of the COM Interfaces
module file
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You can specify the name of

the source file containing
the Fortran modules
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We’ll repeat the process
for another Developer
Studio COM Object
This module will

be called ds_text
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C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\COMMON\MSDEV98\BIN\DEVEDIT.PKG (Visual C++ Text Editor)
…select all of the Using the Visual C++

COM Interfaces Text Editor this time...
as before...
…generate the Fortran

module file and save it
as dstext.f90
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Add the files generated by the
Module Wizard to the dlines project
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dsapp.f90 was generated by
the Fortran Module Wizard
This is an INTERFACE to the function

IGenericDocument_Save(), which saves
the file open in the visual text editor
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Let’s add these sample files
which are located in your
samples\advanced\com\dlines
directory
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These two files make use of the
interfaces in dsapp and dstext
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After other COM functions are called
to modify the Fortran source file...
… $IGenericDocument_Save() is
called to save the changes
Now, let’s take a look at

the program in action
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[Mbcomp.for]
Execute the program
This Fortran fixed-format file

contains lines beginning with
the letters ‘D’ and ‘E’.
Visual Fortran allows only

“Debug Lines” that start with ‘D’
We’ll use dlines to change the

‘E’ debug lines to preprocessed
IF DEFINED statements
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dlines.exe
Specify the file on

which to operate*
The debug character and

the IF DEFINED variable
to replace it with
• Remember to use quotation marks when typing DOS pathnames that

contain spaces
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The ‘E’ debug lines have
Mbcomp2.for * been
replaced with conditional
compilation IF DEFINED
directives
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 dlines made use of functions that are a part of a
Component Object Model Object
 The Visual Fortran Module Wizard was used to
create a Fortran module file that allowed dlines to

interact with Developer Studio
 dlines used functions that are a part of the visual
development environment to edit a Fortran

source file
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Fortran

Visual Fortran Professional Edition
 In addition to the Standard Edition, a Professional
Edition is available that includes:

The complete visual development environment
 IMSL numerical libraries
 Fortran COM Server Wizard and project type
 Compaq Array Visualizer
 The Enterprise Edition includes the Professional

Edition software, plus other software that lets you
use Visual Fortran (on a PC) to develop
applications for Compaq Tru64 UNIX and other
UNIX systems.
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 The Visual Numerics® IMSL numerical libraries provide
over 900 Fortran routines for performing advanced
mathematical algorithms

Applied mathematics

Statistical functions

Helper functions for printing, etc.
 IMSL libraries are available for many other OS/architecture
platforms (see http://www.vni.com)
 To call IMSL routines from Visual Fortran, add the
following USE statement:
USE Numerical_libraries
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 IMSL General Mathematics library
 Solving Linear Systems

Matrix and vector manipulation
 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
 Integration and differentiation
 Differential equations
 Transforms

Printing, sorting, and other utilities
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 IMSL Statistics Library
 Basic statistics, regression, correlation

Analysis of variance
 Covariant structures and factor analysis
 Multidimensional scaling
 Density and hazard estimation
 Functions for printing console-based charts and
graphs (histogram, scatter, etc.)
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IMSL Library Example
 We will now build a Fortran Console application
that uses a couple of the IMSL statistics routines
 mnrain.exe plots some data in a vertical
histogram
 The data is the average precipitation in Minnesota
in the month of March
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IMSL Library Example
 This sample program comes from the IMSL
online documentation
 After looking at the online documentation, we will
build a Visual Fortran project
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The IMSL libraries come with extensive online
documentation as well as a number of example
programs
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In the contents, click Appendix B, Alphabetic
Summary of Routines. Locate VHSTP.
The VHSTP routine is in
Volume 2, so open the file STATVOL2.
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The IMSL documentation offers
information about the routine’s
usage and arguments
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This sample program calls
VHSTP to draw a vertical
histogram of some data It also uses another IMSL
routine, OWFRQ, to
tabulate the data
Let’s build this example

program using Visual Fortran
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Copy the program text from the
online help into a Visual Fortran
source file. In the Edit menu:
1. Click Select All.
2. Click Copy
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mnrain - Compaq Visual Fortran
Now we need to add the

source code to our project
We’ve made a Fortran Console

Application and named it mnrain
So, we’ll create an empty

Fortran source file
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We want to make a new File...
Add it to the current

project (mnrain)
…named mnrain.for
We want it to be Fixed Format (.for)
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mnrain - Compaq Visual Fortran
mnrain.for is open in the

editor
and has been added to the
project
Now, we’ll paste the IMSL
example into mnrain.for
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After we paste in the text from the IMSL documentation file,
edit the text to fit in fixed format:
1. Add the line: USE Numerical_Libraries

2. Comment out the line containing EXTERNAL
3. Change the single quote characters to
ASCII single quotation marks
4. Remove extra non-source text
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Let’s compile this file
to check for errors.
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Now let’s build and
execute the application
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mnrain.exe
By calling two IMSL library routines,

our data was tabulated and displayed
in this histogram
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Creating Fortran COM Servers
 Visual Fortran (all editions) provides the Fortran Module Wizard
to help generate code needed to use COM and Automation
objects (Fortran client applications).
 Visual Fortran Professional and Enterprise Editions also provide
the ability to create a Fortran COM server.
 The Fortran COM Server Wizard helps you generate a Fortran
application that creates a COM server or a server that supports
dual interfaces. The initial implementation in V6.5 supports only
in-process servers, loaded into the client's process.
 COM is language independent, so clients can be created by
Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual Fortran, and other tools that
support COM.
 COM servers are reusable components, so multiple client
applications can use the server.
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Creating a Fortran COM Server consists of these steps:
 Create a Fortran COM Server project. This includes specifying a
class name, interface name, and derived-type name. Select the
Fortran COM Server project type when creating the project.
 Use the Fortran COM Server Wizard to define the interface(s)
defined by the class, including the methods, properties, and
the arguments for each interface.
 When you build the project, the Fortran COM Server Wizard
generates code. You need to modify the source files by adding
code to supply the implementation of the methods.
 Test the Fortran COM server, by creating one or more clients to
access the server.
 Deploy the Fortran COM server.
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The right pane

After you create the Fortran
shows the
COM Server project, you
properties of the
specify a Class name, Class
currently selected
The leftderived-type
pane shows name, and item (in this case
the COM Interface
server name. the COM Server
hierarchy. Adder)
When you click OK, the
Fortran COM Server Wizard
Theappears:
Fortran COM Server Wizard helps you
define the interface's methods, properties, and
their arguments.
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Choose whether a
COM or dual interface
is needed
Expand the + signs

and click Iadd to
display the interface Adder is the COM server and also the
properties project name
AddingMachine is the class name
IAdd is the interface name
(interface names start with I)
AddingMachine_Instance is the Class
derived-type name
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To add Clear and Add methods for the IAdd interface:
1. Select the IAdd interface
2. Click New
3. Select Method, type in Clear, and click OK
4. Repeat steps 1-3, specifying the name Add
5. Select the Add method
6. Click New
7. Select Argument, type in Operand, and
click OK
8. Specify the Fortran data type as REAL(4)
9. Let's assume you are done, so click Save
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Once you click Save,
your project appears.
The TODO.TXT file

informs you of changes
made to your project by
the Wizard, and lets
you know when you
In the FileView pane, need to make changes.
expand the + next to
Adder files and Source
Files folders.
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 You need to modify the source files after lines that
start with ! TODO..., build the project, and then use
one of the clients to test the server.
 To activate the COM Server Wizard later, open your
Fortran COM Server project and click Fortran COM

Server Wizard in the View menu.
 For more information, see:

The Creating a COM Server chapter in the online
Programmers Guide.

The Adder sample in ...Samples\Advanced\COM\Adder,
which contains Visual C++ and Visual Fortran clients as
subprojects.
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 The Professional Edition includes the IMSL numerical
libraries, Fortran COM Server Wizard, and the
Compaq Array Visualizer. The Array Visualizer is
discussed in the next section.
 The Visual Fortran Enterprise Edition includes the
Visual Fortran Professional Edition, plus other

software that lets you use Visual Fortran on your x86
PC system to develop applications for Compaq Tru64
UNIX, and other UNIX and Linux systems. The
Enterprise Edition has a separate slide show.
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Fortran

The Compaq Array Visualizer
 Compaq Visual Fortran Professional and
Enterprise Editions are equipped with the
Compaq Array Visualizer
 The Array Visualizer uses ActiveX technology to
visualize multi-dimensional arrays of data

generated by Visual Fortran programs
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 The Compaq Array Visualizer can be:
 Run as a standalone program called Array Viewer

Controlled by your Visual Fortran or Visual C++
application
 Embedded as an ActiveX control within a Visual
Fortran, Visual C++, or Visual Basic® application

 Used in conjunction with the visual development
environment to view large arrays while debugging
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 Compaq Visual Fortran Professional and
Enterprise Editions give you full access to the
power of the Array Visualizer
 Build Applications that interact with the Array
Visualizer
 Use the Array Visualizer to view large multi-
dimensional arrays while debugging
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 The Array Visualizer interacts with other
programs:

As an embedded ActiveX control in Visual Fortran,
Visual C++, and Visual Basic applications
 Operated via a simple set of function calls in C and
Fortran programs
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 In the following slides we will see the Array
Visualizer at work

Rendering 3D graphs of array data
 Being controlled by a Visual Fortran Program
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The Compaq Array Viewer
The data in the

array are
displayed in this
grid
This pane contains a graphical view

of the data
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Clicking here brings up the
color bar
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The data in the array are
plotted along the z-axis
Each z-value is
assigned a color
The name and the type of the

array are shown here
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The red marker
is used to
indicate the
current array
element
Double-clicking on the graph

will update the marker and grid
accordingly
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Notice the new position of
the marker on the color
bar
The current array

element is listed here
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Just click and drag...
You can rotate the

graph using the
mouse
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The Compaq Array Viewer can
open array data files
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…and customize the colors
and scaling factors used in the
In addition, you can graph.
“zoom in” on a
specific region of the
graph...
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allows you to create a Visual
Fortran application that uses the
Array Viewer.
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A set of Array Visualizer
Fortran routines lets your
application control the action
of the Array Viewer.
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This Array Visualizer
program displays an
array using the Array
Viewer... …makes some changes
to the array...
…and displays the modified result.
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In Visual Fortran Professional and
Enterprise Editions, the Array Viewer
can be used inside the debugger!
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Simple 2- Compaq Visual Fortran [break]
To view an array while

debugging, highlight the
variable name
Then click the Array Viewer

icon
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This array is supposed to store
sin(x) over the range 1 to 40
Clearly, something
is wrong!
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Using the Array Viewer, you
can easily recognize
inconsistencies in large sets
of data
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 Visual Fortran Professional and Enterprise
Editions give you the full power of the Array
Visualizer
 Debug programs using the Array Viewer
 Write Fortran or C programs to control the Array
Viewer
 Use the Avis2d ActiveX control to control the Array
Viewer graphing modes and appearance

 Use the Avis Grid ActiveX control to create tables
of array data
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Introducing

Compaq Visual Fortran

 Offers a combination of:

Compaq Fortran platforms:

 Context-sensitive online documentation

 Same development environment used by Microsoft

The demo is paused while

Choosing ‘Advance’ performs

‘Reverse’ displays the

Choosing ‘End Show’

To create a new project, click New

The following screen appears,

Fortran Windows Applications are

The QuickWin environment

If you have the Microsoft Visual C++ or

You can also develop Fortran

With the Professional or Enterprise

"obsolescent" or "deleted" (such features are still

names, routine names, and line numbers.

additional controls, including ActiveX® controls,

featuring seamless integration with Microsoft Visual

when creating new projects of the same project type.

provided, including over 1500 mathematical routines.

Enterprise Editions only) provides an interactive

The stack frame of real interest is the first frame in

shapes with the mouse

Browser to help us fix a problem in our program

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Before we begin, we will customize the visual

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Choose Fortran QuickWin

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Select the Windows interface best suited to your application

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The qwpaint project

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Use this dialog box to select

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The files are listed under Source

To edit a file, double-click its name.

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Information about the build

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Oh good, everything built

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The mouse draws

Over here, you can

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The visual development environment

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From this comment, we can guess

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We could do a text search

…but that would be slow and

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