{{tag>category:"OpenInsight 32-Bit" author:"Cully A Cobb" author:"Sean FitzSimons" author:"Bryan Shumsky" author:"dsig@sigafoos.org"}}

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==== oinsight.ini, sidebar buttons, and executables (OpenInsight 32-Bit) ====
=== At 01 JUL 2009 02:02:15PM Cully A Cobb wrote: ===
 
 
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Hiya folks,



I had a question about adding side bar buttons to the oinsight.ini file.  I'm able to add window executables from OIWINEXE easily, but I haven't been able to add direct calls to programs.  Is it possible?  What would be the proper call?  



Thanks in advance!

Cully
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=== At 01 JUL 2009 02:54PM Sean FitzSimons wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Cully,



Sorry, but at this time, the buttons may only launch windows.  You could launch an invisible window, run your program from the Create event and then close the window.



Thanks,

Sean

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=== At 02 JUL 2009 05:48PM Cully A Cobb wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Thanks Sean, I'll try a form based approach. 

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=== At 16 JUL 2009 12:44PM Bryan Shumsky wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Hi, Cully.  Sorry for the delay in responding, but I thought Sean's answer was correct until I needed to test something myself.



When you configure the sidebar button to launch a window, you typically specify OIWINEXE** (for example, OIWINEXE**CTO_STANDALONE_FORM). I've found that if you instead specify a repository path to a stored procedure, then the stored procedure _will_ be invoked (for example, STPROCEXE**MYPROC).  Note that you cannot pass in any parameters or anything, so I don't know if this is an adequate solution to your problem or not, but I thought this information might be useful.



Hope it helps,

- Bryan Shumsky

  Revelation Software

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=== At 23 JUL 2009 01:31PM dsig@sigafoos.org wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>It sounds like this is more the 'repository' function instead of just a window... I wonder if a report or other item could be executed the same way... hummm

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