We would like our application to launch documents (word, excel etc) without user intervention.

We have been unable to get OI to do this using utility and RUNWIN. We can so ..

rtn=Utility("RUNWIN","E:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\OFFICE\WINWORD.EXE")

but

1) since each company who buys the product may have word installed in differing directories hard coding this doesn't seem to make a lot of sense (note I have put it in E and not the default of c)

2) I want a specfic document to launch. Shouldn't I be able to

rtn=Utility("RUNWIN","E:\anydir\worddoc.doc")

and 'expect' the windows registry to 'know' where is is going? How do all the other apps in the world (oi or other environments) handle this.

Thanks ..

ps .. i am also posting this in the works section

Ray:

It's that 16-bit thing.

Office registers itself in the registry, RUNWIN can't check there.

If you run your document from the NT RUN command line it will open.

IF you have Internet Explorer 5.0 , or you have the windows scripting host, then

you can write a quick vbScript wrapper that will behave like the RUN line, and open your documents.

I only allowed one argument here, modify it to build a string out of Wsh.Arguments if you want more

Step 0:

Get the scripting host via IE5 or msdn.microsoft.com/scripting

Step 1:

Save the following as runit.vbs in your OpenInsight subdirectory

' ————–

'Runit.vbs

' Pass it a registerd file type, e.g MyWord.doc and it will run the document

' RJC 01-09-2000

'—————

Dim oShell

set oshell=Wscript.CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )

cmd=Wsh.Arguments(0)

'Wscript.Echo cmd

oShell.Run(cmd)

set oshell=nothing

Step 2:

In OpenInsight write a function like

subroutine RunFile(dosfile)

*

* Call vbScript to open documents via registry

*

Declare Function UnAssigned, Utility

If Unassigned(dosfile) then dosfile='

if len(dosfile) then

 ntCmd=runit.vbs ':dosfile

 x=Utility("RUNWIN",dosfile)

end

Step three

From your code

call RunFile("Mypath\MyWord.Doc")

or the system monitor try:

run Runfile "MyPath\MyWord.doc"

Note:

This works from Arev too. (Think you must download scripting host)

If you have the scripting host you can

SUSPEND EXIT CSCRIPT RUNFILE MYFILE.DOC to open word, excel, notepad, etc.

Hope this helps.

Bob

Bob,

First .. let me thank you for the quick response and the hack.

Upon further investigation, I found a thread between DSig (David Sigafoos) and Cameron Purdy which showed a OI resolution.

The information is in the WORKS section so I wont reveal it here but look for the thread 'OPENDOC'.

Thanks again

You actually don't need to use WSH for this.

Windows '9x has the feature built in.

In OI, use:

Utility('RUNWIN', 'start c:\whatever.doc')

In AREV, use:

SUSPEND EXIT START c:\whatever.doc

Vince

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