Two simple questions. (OpenInsight Specific)
At 25 APR 2001 11:25:07PM Jeff Ritchie wrote:
1. Can you incorporate an ActiveX control in OI, or does the 16bit thing exclude this. Have used Progress v9 which totally supports ActiveX.
2. Have just started using OI but am aware that Revelation does not allow calls to Windows programs, is this the same case with OI or can you executed a Windows exe application from within an OI program. (This is probably explained in the manuals somewhere but have only about 1 day expierance with OI so far).
Thanks in advance.
At 26 APR 2001 07:42AM Colin Rule wrote:
I believe Tony Splaver has a product allowing incorporation of Windows controls into OI… but I could be mistaken.
We have linked to DLLs, eg a Delphi program for graphing etc, so it is possible in this way.
You can call Windows exes and any other file however, using UTILITY(RUNWIN).
Provided the file is an EXE or has an association it will run, for example calling a DOC file will launch Word etc.
Colin Rule
At 26 APR 2001 07:19PM Jeff Ritchie wrote:
Thanks for the answer Colin, two further questions
1. Who is Tony Splaver and how would l connect him.
2. Have searched the Programmer's Referernce Manual but cannot locate the RUNWIN utility. Is this documented somewhere else?
At 26 APR 2001 08:10PM Barry Stevens wrote:
]]We have linked to DLLs, eg a Delphi program for graphing etc, so it is possible in this way..
Barry
At 26 APR 2001 08:25PM Barry Stevens wrote:
1. Who is Tony Splaver and how would l connect him.
WebSite is www.pacifier.com/~splaver/2. Have searched the Programmer's Referernce Manual but cannot locate the RUNWIN utility. Is this documented somewhere else?
UTILITY command - RUNWIN is a parameterBarry
At 26 APR 2001 08:47PM Jeff Ritchie wrote:
Hey thanks Barry,
So if passing off a comma deliminated text file called data.txt, would be something like
Value=Excel.exe"
Value=??????
Value=??????
ExcelCall=Utility(RUNWIN,Value)
Not sure what the manual means by Value Name of callback function and Value Parameter to be passed to callback function. Is the callback function the Win program or OI coding????
Any code snippets would be great!
Thanks in advance.
At 27 APR 2001 02:37AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Jeff,
The Value, the callback function is the name of a Basic+ routine for OI to execute when it has returned from loading your EXE. Value is a parameter to pass to to this function. (Can't honestly say we've used it much, perhaps on one occasion…)
Don't know if you found the section on called functions exported from DLLs in the online-help but that's another way of getting outside OI :)
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At 27 APR 2001 02:40AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Barry,
There's a product called Graphics Server which we've integrated very nicely into several OI applications in the past. If the 16 bit version is still avaiable it's fairly easy to use its DLL's to embed a graphing window into one of your OI windows at runtime so the whole thing looks like it's all part of the same app.
Having said that we seen quite a few apps that have gone totally MS Office for reporting too :)
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At 27 APR 2001 03:41AM Oystein Reigem wrote:
Jeff,
Have searched the Programmer's Referernce Manual but cannot locate the RUNWIN utility.
Trivial piece of advice: When there's something in a Help file one cannot find it's often useful to try the Search tab instead of the Index tab. From Search one can search all the words of all the Help articles. Under Index one can only find the subjects the author decided should be indexed.
- Oystein -