Forms 6 and VB

Does anyone know how to execute a Visual Basic App from within Forms 6 as a subroutine of sub program without losing state in the form?

Wilfried Antony wrote:

>I am trying to precompile a Pro*C application for the company I am
>working.
>Generating Include file and Intype file with OTT succeeded.
>But invoking the Pro*C precompiler results in error messages concerning
>the processing of the "size_t" structure being involved by including
>the file "oci.h" in the OTT-generated Include file. This file in turn
>seems to include "ociextp.h", "ociapr.h", "nzt.h" which cause the
>precompiler to complain: (i translated some terms to english)
>
>proc code=cpp cpp_suffix=cc intype=diacron.typ
>'sys_include=(/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/precomp/syshdr,
>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/include,
>/usr/include/g++,/usr/include,/usr/include/linux)'
>iname=transact
>
>Pro*C/C++: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Mi Jan 30 12:04:34 2002
>(c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
>System-Defaultsettings from:
>/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/precomp/admin/pcscfg.cfg
>
>Syntaxerror in Line 233, Col 50, File
>/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/rdbms/public/ociextp.h:
>Error in Line 233, Col 50, in File
>/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/rdbms/public/ociextp.h
>dvoid *ociepacm(OCIExtProcContext *with_context, size_t amount);
>.................................................1
>PCC-S-02201, Found Symbol "size_t" when expecting one of the following:
> ... auto, char, const, double, enum, float, int, long,
>ulong_varchar, OCIBFileLocator OCIBlobLocator, OCIClobLocator,
>OCIDateTime, OCIExtProcContext, OCIInterval, OCIRowid, OCIDate,
>OCINumber, OCIRaw, OCIString, register, short, signed,
>sql_context, sql_cursor, static, struct, union, unsigned,
>utext, uvarchar, varchar, void, volatile,
>a typedef name, exec oracle, exec oracle begin, exec,
>exec sql, exec sql begin, exec sql type, exec sql var,
>Das Symbol "enum," ersetzte "size_t", um fortzufahren.
>
>........the above several times for the other files.............
>
>
>My pcscfg.cfg looks like:
>===============================================================
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/precomp/public
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/oracode/include
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/oracode/public
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/rdbms/include
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/rdbms/public
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/rdbms/demo
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/network/include
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/network/public
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/plsql/public
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/otrace/public
>include=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/ldap/public
>include=/home/wilf/lib/include
>ltype=none
>parse=partial
>==============================================================
>
>And the beginning code in the file transact.pc looks like:
>==============================================================
>
>#include "sqlnet/transact.hh"
>
>EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>#include <sqlca.h>
>#include "diacron.h" //generated by OTT
>
> int id;
> varchar szenario[20];
> char *username="************";
> MYTYPE *MyPtr;
>
>EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
>
>Transaction::.....several class encodings..........
>Transaction::.....several class encodings..........
>=============================================================
>
>By the way, i figured out so many different settings and
>alternative code placements now, I satisfy all guidelines of
>the Pro*C-Programmers Guide, but I don't get that stuff running!
>
>I'd appreciate any help!
>
>Regards,
> Wilfried
>
Received on Mon Feb 04 2002 - 06:44:40 CET