Introduction

When you create components using the SAS Component Object Model (SCOM) framework, you can take advantage of four distinct processes that enable components to communicate with each other.
Attribute linking
enabling a component to change one of its attributes when the value of another attribute is changed.
Model/view communication
enabling a viewer (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.
This section describes how you can add these communication processes to your components.