Pro/TOOLKIT Synchronous and Multi-Process Applications

This guide will demonstrate how to create a basic Pro E Toolkit application and execute it on your system.

In this tutorial we review the difference between a Synchronous and Multi-Process Pro E Toolkit application... it is that a Multi-Process application is the “Debug” configuration of the Synchronous application. You will also learn that in order to successfully compile a Pro E Toolkit application the ProToolkit.h header file needs to be included. Any other include files will be included as needed when we require new API functionality.

Additionally, Pro E Toolkit needs two essential functions in order to successfully start and stop our executable. The functions user_initialize() and user_terminate() provide this functionality to Pro/ENGINEER and allows us as programmers the opportunity to initialize our program. The main() function is only required in a Multi-Process mode Pro E Toolkit application. Pro/ENGINEER requires any auxiliary applications to be registered in a registry file. We cover the different fields and values that are required for each program entry in the registry file.

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