The OpenEdge Hive

A password meter written in ABL.
It is database independent and uses the first connected database for the session.
By default it has 2 levels of strength that can be easily checked for and/or required: Strong Passwords and Xtra Strong Passwords
It checks for the following:
Required for strong passwords:
Length of 12 to 24 characters
Use of all 4 types of characters
Not the same as the previous 5 passwords
No personal names (first or last) and no company names or company acronym (hard-coded).

Required for Xtra strong passwords:
At least 2 upper case letters used

Sometimes it's neccessary to add a Caption in the titlebar to give extra information to the user of your application. The attached file does this, and makes sure the window got redrawn when windows triggers arive.
As you can see, many instances of msgblst32 are added on this window. The goal is to make it more the controlling window which always catches the events on the underlaying session applications. As every window needs its own ocx, I provided 40 instances which are hopefully enough to maintain every window.

In this example function you pass to it the format you want YYYYMMDD YYMMDD ISO etc. along with date and time delimiters you wish to use. This does use the NOW statement which is not in older versions.

This set of examples show various methods to test for character, integer, and decimal values.
The various test methods came from a discussion on the PEG and suggestions by members and myself.

Typical time results per 100,000 iterations of the functions.

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¦fn-ISCHAR-loop:   31510 ms no  Loop method        ¦
¦fn-ISCHAR:         3681 ms no  DEC(x) error method¦