Symantec PCANYWHERE - OLE AUTOMATION GUIDE V12.1 User manual

Symantec pcAnywhere™
OLE Automation Guide

Symantec pcAnywhere™ OLE Automation Guide
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Contents
Chapter 1 Using OLE Automation with Symantec pcAnywhere
About OLE Automation ....................................................................................... 11
About the pcAnywhere Automation Server .................................................... 12
What you can do with the pcAnywhere Automation Server ........................ 12
Before you start .................................................................................................... 13
Automatically registering the remote engine ......................................... 13
Manually registering the remote engine .................................................. 14
Accessing the pcAnywhere Automation Server ..................................... 14
Accessing the pcAnywhere Automation Server with Visual Basic ...... 14
Accessing the pcAnywhere Automation Server with Visual C++ ........ 15
Launching host and remote OLE objects .................................................. 17
Where to find more information ....................................................................... 17
Chapter 2 Visual Basic object definitions
About Visual Basic objects .................................................................................. 19
CRemoteDataManager methods ........................................................................ 20
CurrentDirectory() ....................................................................................... 20
ChangeDirectory(NewDirectory) ............................................................... 21
FindFirst(Pattern, Name string) ................................................................ 21
FindNext(Name) ........................................................................................... 22
RetrieveObject(Name, AccessMode, Password) ......................................23
RetrieveObjectEx(Name, AccessMode, Password) ..................................23
CreateObject(Name) ..................................................................................... 24
CreateObjectEx(Name) ................................................................................ 24
DeleteObject(Name, Password) .................................................................. 25
CRemoteData properties .................................................................................... 26
Connection type properties ........................................................................ 28
Dialing properties ........................................................................................ 30
COM device properties ................................................................................ 31
NetBIOS device properties ......................................................................... 34
ISDN via CAPI 2.0 device properties ......................................................... 35
CRemoteDataEx object ........................................................................................ 36
Visual Basic sample code for remote functionality ................................ 37

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CHostDataManager methods ............................................................................. 39
CurrentDirectory() ....................................................................................... 39
FindFirst(Pattern, Name string) ................................................................ 39
FindNext(Name) ........................................................................................... 40
RetrieveObject(Name, AccessMode, Password) ...................................... 41
RetrieveObjectEx(Name, AccessMode, Password) .................................. 41
CreateObject(Name) ..................................................................................... 42
CreateObjectEx(Name) ................................................................................ 42
DeleteObject(Name, Password) .................................................................. 43
Launch(Name) .............................................................................................. 43
CHostData properties .......................................................................................... 44
Connection type properties ........................................................................ 46
AssignConnection(ConnectionType) method .......................................... 48
UnassignConnection(ConnectionType) method ..................................... 48
Dialing properties ........................................................................................ 49
COM device properties ................................................................................ 50
NetBIOS device properties ......................................................................... 53
ISDN via CAPI 2.0 device properties ......................................................... 54
CHostDataEx object ............................................................................................. 55
Visual Basic sample code for host functionality ..................................... 62
Awrem32 functions ............................................................................................. 63
awConnect(FileName) ................................................................................. 63
awDisconnect() ............................................................................................. 64
FileXferFromHost(HostFile, RemoteFile) ................................................ 64
FileXferToHost(HostFile, RemoteFile) ..................................................... 65
CreateFolderOnHost(FolderName) ........................................................... 65
ExecuteHostFile(FileName) ........................................................................ 66
GetError() ...................................................................................................... 66
ConnectionStatus() ...................................................................................... 67

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Chapter 3 Visual C++ object definitions
About Visual C++ objects .................................................................................... 69
CRemoteDataManager methods ........................................................................ 71
BSTR CurrentDirectory(); ........................................................................... 71
BOOL ChangeDirectory(LPCTSTR lpszNewDirectory); ......................... 71
BOOL FindFirst(LPCTSTR lpszPattern, BSTR FAR*
pbstrFullQualName); ........................................................................... 72
BOOL FindNext(BSTR FAR* pbstrFullQualName); ................................. 72
LPDISPATCH RetrieveObject(LPCTSTR lpszFQName, short
wAccessMode, LPCTSTR lpszPassword); ......................................... 73
LPDISPATCH RetrieveObjectEx(LPCTSTR lpszFQName, short
wAccessMode, LPCTSTR lpszPassword); ......................................... 73
LPDISPATCH CreateObject(LPCTSTR lpszFQName); ............................ 74
LPDISPATCH CreateObjectEx(LPCTSTR lpszFQName); ........................75
BOOL DeleteObject(LPCTSTR lpszFQName, LPCTSTR
lpszPassword); ...................................................................................... 76
BOOL Launch(LPCTSTR lpszFQName); .................................................... 76
CRemoteData object ............................................................................................ 77
Get and Set methods ...................................................................................77
Remote object Detail methods ................................................................... 79
Remote object methods ............................................................................... 82
CRemoteDataEx object ........................................................................................ 85
Visual C++ sample code for remote functionality .................................. 85
CHostDataManager methods ............................................................................. 86
BSTR CurrentDirectory(); ........................................................................... 86
BOOL ChangeDirectory(LPCTSTR lpszNewDirectory); ......................... 86
BOOL FindFirst(LPCTSTR lpszPattern, BSTR FAR*
pbstrFullQualName); ........................................................................... 87
BOOL FindNext(BSTR FAR* pbstrFullQualName); ................................. 87
LPDISPATCH RetrieveObject(LPCTSTR lpszFQName, short
wAccessMode, LPCTSTR lpszPassword); ......................................... 88
LPDISPATCH RetrieveObjectEx(LPCTSTR lpszFQName, short
wAccessMode, LPCTSTR lpszPassword); ......................................... 89
LPDISPATCH CreateObject(LPCTSTR lpszName); ................................. 90
LPDISPATCH CreateObjectEx(LPCTSTR lpszName); ............................. 90
BOOL DeleteObject(LPCTSTR lpszFQName, LPCTSTR
lpszPassword); ...................................................................................... 91
BOOL Launch(LPCTSTR lpszFQName); .................................................... 91
CHostData object ................................................................................................. 92
Get and Set methods ...................................................................................92
Host object Detail methods ........................................................................ 93
Host object methods .................................................................................... 97

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CHostDataEx object ...........................................................................................101
Visual C++ sample code for host functionality .....................................103
Awrem32 functions ........................................................................................... 104
boolean awConnect(BSTR FileName); ....................................................104
boolean awDisconnect(); ...........................................................................105
boolean FileXferFromHost(BSTR HostFile, BSTR RemoteFile); .........105
boolean FileXferToHost(BSTR HostFile, BSTR RemoteFile); ..............105
boolean CreateFolderOnHost(BSTR FolderName); ...............................106
boolean ExecuteHostFile(BSTR FileName); ...........................................106
BSTR GetError(); ........................................................................................107
short ConnectionStatus(); .........................................................................107
Index

Chapter 1
Using OLE Automation
with Symantec
pcAnywhere
This chapter includes the following topics:
■About OLE Automation
■About the pcAnywhere Automation Server
■What you can do with the pcAnywhere Automation Server
■Before you start
■Where to find more information
About OLE Automation
OLE Automation is a technology that lets you create an external application or
other development tool (such as a script or macro) that can control and
automate any exposed function within an application.
OLE Automation consists of the following components:
■OLE Automation server: An application or software component that exposes
its functionality so that it can be accessed or controlled by other
applications or development tools
The pcAnywhere Automation Server is an example of an OLE Automation
server.
See “About the pcAnywhere Automation Server” on page 12.

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About the pcAnywhere Automation Server
■OLE Automation controller: An application or development tool that
accesses and controls the components that have been exposed by the OLE
Automation server
You can use any programming language that supports OLE Automation.
The two most common programming languages are Microsoft Visual Basic
and Microsoft Visual C++.
An external application accesses an OLE Automation server by connecting to the
server and then requesting access to one or more of its published interfaces. An
interface is an entry point that allows access to one or more related methods or
properties. After an application obtains an interface to the server, it can then
call any internal interface method as though it were part of the external
application.
About the pcAnywhere Automation Server
The pcAnywhere Automation Server lets external applications manage
pcAnywhere remote and host files to automate remote control and file transfer
tasks. The pcAnywhere Automation Server functions as a programmable
replacement for the Symantec pcAnywhere user interface and mirrors much of
its default behavior.
For example, when you create a host object in pcAnywhere, the first available
modem TAPI device is assigned by default. Similarly, when you create a host
object using the pcAnywhere Automation Server and then enumerate through
the list of assigned connections, the first available modem TAPI device is
already assigned.
What you can do with the pcAnywhere Automation
Server
The pcAnywhere Automation Server lets you automate a variety of
administrative and productivity tasks. For example, you can do the following:
■Automatically distribute and install software updates on multiple
computers across your network
■Schedule automatic file transfers between computers for audit or archive
purposes
This document contains several examples, written in both Visual Basic and
Visual C++, to illustrate how to connect to and use the pcAnywhere Automation
Server.
See “Visual Basic object definitions” on page 19.

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Before you start
See “Visual C++ object definitions” on page 69.
Before you start
During a connection to the pcAnywhere Automation Server and its interfaces,
identifier parameters, known as globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), are passed
to the automation library API functions. A separate GUID is assigned to the
pcAnywhere Automation Server and to each exposed interface. These GUIDs
must be present in the system registry to connect an external application to the
pcAnywhere Automation Server and its interfaces.
You can register the GUID entries automatically if you are running the external
application on a computer on which Symantec pcAnywhere is installed.
Otherwise, you must register the GUID entries manually.
See “Automatically registering the remote engine” on page 13.
See “Manually registering the remote engine” on page 13.
Automatically registering the remote engine
Before you connect to another computer for the first time using your OLE client,
you must self-register the remote engine. You can do this automatically when
you start a remote object in Symantec pcAnywhere.
To automatically register the remote engine
1To open Symantec pcAnywhere, do one of the following:
■On the desktop, double-click the Symantec pcAnywhere program icon.
■On the Windows taskbar, click Start > Programs > Symantec
pcAnywhere.
2In the pcAnywhere Manager window, click Remotes.
3Double-click a remote connection item.
This process registers the remote engine. You do not need to complete the
connection.
Manually registering the remote engine
If pcAnywhere is not installed on the computer on which you are running the
external application, you must register the GUIDs manually by running the
pcAnywhere Automation Server executable file (Winawsvr.exe). You only need
to run the executable file once to add the GUIDs to the registry. The
Winawsvr.exe file is located in the installation directory.

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Before you start
Accessing the pcAnywhere Automation Server
You can access the pcAnywhere Automation Server using any language
platform that supports OLE Automation. The two most popular language
platforms that support OLE Automation are Visual Basic and Visual C++.
The coding principles for these two platforms are similar, although in the Visual
Basic environment, much of the low-level work is performed behind the scenes
by the Visual Basic run-time system.
Accessing the pcAnywhere Automation Server with Visual Basic
The Visual Basic programming language has built-in support to interact with
OLE Automation servers, such as the pcAnywhere Automation Server. You
create a Standard Exe project, and then enter code in each method to access the
pcAnywhere Automation Server. Visual Basic takes the high-level method calls
in the source files and expands them internally into the corresponding low-level
OLE Automation method calls.
See “Visual Basic object definitions” on page 19.
To access the pcAnywhere Automation Server with Visual Basic
1Add a pair of Object variables for each pcAnywhere object that you want to
access.
For example, when working with remote objects, DIM a
RemoteDataManager and a RemoteDataObject as Object.
2Use the RemoteDataManager to attach to the remote object’s data manager.
For example, call the CreateObject method with
WINAWSVR.REMOTEDATAMANAGER as a parameter.
Visual Basic uses the textual parameter to locate the manager’s identifier in
the registry and returns the interface to that manager.
3Once there is a valid data manager object, use it to do any of the following:
■Determine the current directory.
■Change to another directory.
■Enumerate the associated data object files in the current directory.
■Create, retrieve, or delete a data object file.
4After a data object is created or retrieved, you can get or set properties of the
object.
The Visual Basic syntax does not use a property’s name to differentiate
between getting and setting its value. Instead, the property’s position in
relation to the assignment operator determines whether the underlying
method call is a Get or a Set.

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Before you start
The following examples demonstrate a Get and a Set:
■To get an object’s phone number value, place the property name to the
right of the assignment operator.
For example, s = RemoteData.PhoneNumber(), where s is a string
variable.
■To set the phone number, place the property name to the left of the
assignment operator.
For example, RemoteData.PhoneNumber = “555-1212”
Accessing the pcAnywhere Automation Server with Visual C++
The pcAnywhere Automation Server uses type libraries to expose information
about its interfaces and methods to automation clients that are written in Visual
C++. These type libraries use Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), which can be
imported into your application using the Visual C++ ClassWizard.
The data manager classes that are provided in the type libraries provide the
functionality that is needed to obtain an interface to the pcAnywhere
Automation Server and perform high-level operations on the interface’s
associated object type.
Use the data manager object to do the following:
■Determine or change the current directory.
■Enumerate through the list of data object files in the current directory.
■Create, retrieve, or delete a named object.
Once created or retrieved, an object uses the associated data object class to
examine or modify any of its exposed properties. Most of these properties are
exposed through a pair of methods that begin with the word Get or Set. For
example, a user calls the GetPhoneNumber method to examine the object’s
current phone number property and calls SetPhoneNumber to set it.
See “Visual C++ object definitions” on page 69.
Importing and viewing classes
The pcAnywhere Automation Server uses the following type libraries:
■Winawsvr.tlb: Provides the information needed to connect to the
pcAnywhere Automation Server and access its interfaces
■Awrem32.tlb: Provides the information needed to control pcAnywhere
connections

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Before you start
Import and view classes
The following procedures explain how to import the class definitions from the
pcAnywhere Automation Server type libraries into your MFC application and
then view the classes that have been added to your application.
To import classes
1In Visual C++, create an MFC application.
2On the View menu, click Class Wizard.
3In the Class Wizard dialog box, click Add Class, and then click From a type
library.
4Double-click winawsvr.tlb.
5In the Confirm Classes dialog box, click OK to import all class definitions.
6In the Class Wizard dialog box, click Add Class, and then click From a type
library.
7Double-click awrem32.tlb.
8In the Confirm Classes dialog box, click OK to import all class definitions.
9In the Class Wizard dialog box, click OK to complete the import process.
The classes are added to the application. These classes let you manipulate
objects and manage connections.
Importing the class definitions from the type libraries also adds support
files to the application. These files contain the class definitions and
implementation source code for the pcAnywhere Automation Server.
See “Viewing the class definitions and implementation files” on page 16.
To view the added classes
1In Visual C++, open your MFC application.
2In the Workspace window, click the ClassView tab.
Viewing the class definitions and implementation files
When you import the pcAnywhere Automation Server type libraries into your
application, the following files are added:
■Winawsvr.h
■Winawsvr.cpp
■Awrem32.h
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Where to find more information
These files contain the class definitions and implementation source code for the
pcAnywhere Automation Server. You do not need to edit these files; however,
each application source file that contains calls to the pcAnywhere Automation
Server methods must include Winawsvr.h.
To view the class definitions and implementation files
1In Visual C++, open your MFC application.
2In the Workspace window, click the FileView tab.
Launching host and remote OLE objects
Symantec pcAnywhere requires that you store all host and remote objects in the
default data directory. Before you launch a host or remote object that you
created using OLE, ensure that the object is located in the pcAnywhere default
data directory. The default directory is the All Users folder in Windows XP, and
is the ProgramData folder in Vista.
Where to find more information
For more information about OLE automation, see the following references:
■Box, Don. 1998. Essential COM. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
■Horton, Ivor. 1997. Beginning MFC Programming. Birmingham, UK.: Wrox
Press.
■Rogerson, Dale. 1997. Inside COM. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press.
■Templeman, Julian. 1997. Beginning MFC COM Programming. Birmingham,
UK.: Wrox Press.

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Where to find more information

Chapter 2
Visual Basic object
definitions
This chapter includes the following topics:
■About Visual Basic objects
■CRemoteDataManager methods
■CRemoteData properties
■CRemoteDataEx object
■CHostDataManager methods
■CHostData properties
■CHostDataEx object
■Awrem32 functions
About Visual Basic objects
The pcAnywhere Automation Server provides the following components to
support OLE Automation:
■Winawsvr: Provides the information needed to connect to the pcAnywhere
Automation Server and access its interfaces
■Awrem32: Provides the information needed to control pcAnywhere
connections

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CRemoteDataManager methods
Table 2-1 describes the objects that comprise Winawsvr.
Awrem32 has one object, which consists of eight interfaces to support remote
control and file transfer sessions.
See “Awrem32 functions” on page 63.
Some functions are no longer supported. However, object definitions are
provided for use with earlier versions of pcAnywhere.
For functions that require passwords, password values can be set but not
retrieved. This is for security purposes.
CRemoteDataManager methods
The CRemoteDataManager methods provide the parameters and return values
for accessing and controlling CRemoteData objects.
CurrentDirectory()
Returns the full path name of the current directory in which pcAnywhere
remote objects are stored.
Table 2-1 Winawsvr objects
Object Description Reference
CRemoteDataManager Provides the methods for
creating, opening, modifying,
saving, and deleting
CRemoteData objects
See “CRemoteDataManager
methods” on page 20.
CRemoteData Defines the parameters for
accessing and controlling
pcAnywhere remote
functionality
See “CRemoteData
properties” on page 26.
See “CRemoteDataEx
object” on page 36.
CHostDataManager Provides the methods for
creating, opening, modifying,
saving, and deleting CHostData
objects
See “CHostDataManager
methods” on page 39.
CHostData Defines the parameters for
accessing and controlling
pcAnywhere host functionality
See “CHostData properties”
on page 44.
See “CHostDataEx object”
on page 55.