Re: Launching separate Windows app from Forms 4.5 for DDE

openshaw_at_airmail.net (Mike Openshaw) wrote:
>kkonopa_at_symantec.com (kirsten konopaski) wrote:
>
>>Hi,
 

>>I need to launch a separate Windows application upon loading of my Forms 4.5
>>application. I attempt to use HOST with NO_SCREEN and NO_PROMPT, however, the
>>Windows application does have a window and display.
 

>>It isn't working, ie: the control to Forms never returns until the separate
>>Windows executable is closed.
 

>>I need to perform DDE between FORMS and this separate Windows app. Any ideas on
>>how to launch this separate Windows application successfully? With Forms still
>>in control when it is completed?
 

>>Thanks
>>Kirsten
>You need to register an ORA_FFI procedure to open another application;
>we use this overly complex mechanism to access Windows style help.
>Hopefully, Oracle will provide a more staight-forward approach in the
>near-future.
>Michael B. Openshaw
>Integrated Medical Networks
>(Opinions expressed are my own)
>

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Did you try the DDE.APP_BEGIN procedure???

David M. Taulbee
TRW Vehicle Safety Systems
dtaulbee_at_po.michsb.trw.com