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The SAS Component Object Model (SCOM) is an object-oriented programming model that provides a flexible framework for SAS/AF component developers. With SCOM, you can develop plug-and-play components that adhere to simple communication rules, which in turn make it easy to share information between components.
A component in SCOM is a self-contained, reusable object with specific properties, including
With SCOM, you can design components that communicate with each other, using any of the following processes:
Attribute linking | enabling a component to change one of its attributes when the value of another attribute is changed. |
Model/view communication | enabling a view (typically a control) to communicate with a model based on a set of common methods that are defined in an interface. |
Drag and drop operations | enabling information to be transferred from one component to another by defining "drag" attributes on one component and "drop" attributes on the other. |
Event handling | enabling a component to send an event that another component can respond to by using an associated event handler. |
For more information on component development using SCOM, see the SAS Guide to Applications Development.
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