I would like to start the system editor from a form.

I have a button with a click quickevent of

APP*WINEXE*DWB. I need to know what "message" and

"parameters" I need to provide the quickevent.

Using just the "message" of EXECUTE I get a dialog

box of "invalid password" and the editor fails

to load.

Thanks.. Steve Carlson

Steve,

If I'm not mistaken, you're going to have problems loading the System Editor this way because OpenEngine can only process one item at a time. That is, since OpenEngine is currently occupied running your event, it cannot at the same time launch System Editor as well. Usually this produces the message: Engine is busy, or something similar.

Hopefully I'm wrong on this.

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions

That doesn' seem right since I can load

System Editor, Form Designer, and Report Designer

all at one time. How bought it REVSOFT. TECHS

.

.

Steve C.

That doesn' seem right since I can load System Editor, Form Designer, and Report Designer all at one time.

That's because you are not using OpenEngine to launch these applications from the Application Manager. The problem exists when you try to use Basic+ or an event to perform this action.

Reporter has a special procedure for launching reports in code, but I'm not a user of Reporter so I can't remember what that is. For the other tools I believe you have to launch them through an IDLEPROC launched subroutine.

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions

From the IDLEPROC entry in Basic+ Reference Help:

Applies to System.

Description Value is an @FM-delimited array:

Value Description

IdleProcStructure Procedure Name.

IdleProcStructure (optional) Parameter.

IdleProcStructure (optional) Time of activating (hh:mm:ss), defaults to as soon as OpenEngine is idle.

IdleProcStructure (optional) Day of activating (mm/dd/yy), defaults to today.

Remarks

An exclamation point in front of procedure name allows you to start external Windows applications (rather than stored procedures).

As soon as the indicated procedure is being activated Presentation Server resets the IDLEPROC property to null.

To run OpenInsight tools from BASIC+, you cannot use Utility("RUNWIN") since the engine is busy executing your BASIC+ script and will not respond to the tool as it opens. In order to run a tool when the engine is not busy, use the IDLEPROC property. The following code runs the Database Manager:

Cmd=!LB.EXE /AP=: @appid: " /UN=: @username

Set_Property("SYSTEM", "ILEPROC", Cmd)

Restriction

len(IdleProcStructure) Sprezzatura Ltd[/url]

Thanks.. IDLEPROC worked great.. I just had to

add the /PW=password parameter to start the

DWB.EXE system editor. Steve Carlson. Austin,TX

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