Is it possible to run AREV from Windows and suspend/exit from AREV and start a Windows program, like Lotus 123. When finished in Windows, terminate progran and exit back into/restart AREV?

Or how about this one?

Start Lotus 123 then shell out and start AREV. Exit AREV and return to Lotus and automatically start up a known spreadsheet. This would also need to tell the difference between the end-of-day exit and a process spreadsheet exit.

The rationale:

We had a routine that would create a Quatro Pro spreadsheet. We could suspend AREV and seamlessly start the DOS Quatro spreadsheet. We have just completed an upgrade to Lotus 123. It is not seamless like the DOS senario and the users would like it to be.

Any suggestions.

TIA,

Roy

I have an application that sort of does this. It basically is a database for images. You can view information about the image in the database while the image is viewed in different window (a Windows application). Arev calls the Windows program using a PCPERFORM command, which is executed immediately. I think control reverts back to Arev immediately rather than waiting for the Windows application to complete. So that would be the main thing I would state that would be different from your scenario.

I don't know enough about Windows applications, but I do know that some of them recognize themselves and others don't. By this I mean if you were to make two consecutive calls to the Windows app, with app1, a duplicate copy of the app would be loaded and with app2 the existing session would be recognized.

When I was researching image viewers for my application, I found one that did what I wanted, which was to use the already open application and load a new picture while forgetting about the old picture.

We did this using PcAnywhere for windows some years ago. We used the macro facility to load AREV which executed a specific login script, created some ascii files, zipped them up and exited. The macro would see the zip file and automatically send the zip file back out.

So long as your windows app supports calling another app, it should work fine.

I do this all the time except that found a freeware program called TRAYICON. When it runs it places an its icon by the clock display on your taskbar. It is configuared to always execute a batch file called AREVBAT.BAT. When you click on the icon it starts the batch file. We simply have AREV write the command say "WINWORD foo.doc " to start word and load the foo.doc or "Excel" etc to the AREVBAT.BAT file. Since WIN95/98 has the ability to start a windows program from a dos batch file it works greata and you can process any dos batch commands as well. Also, Arev never shuts down!

would you be so kind and tell me the name of the software you found?

conrad

where do you get arevbat.bat or what is written in arevbat.bat.

Please give me an answer.

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thanks, conrad

I thought I had answered this question already. Well, better late than never? The software I used is a freeware product called IrfanView. You can download it from http://softwarecenter.net/irfanview/

I've just loaded the latest version which seems to be a bit slower. I'll have to do some benchmarks. What you'll want to do is to go into the options and specify whether to have only one active copy of the viewer.

It turns out that the latest version is compressed (400K). The extra load time is needed to decompress the executable at run time. I contacted the author who stated an uncompressed version of the software (800K) is available by request only. Note that while I use this primarily as a viewer from Arev, it is also a full function image editor as well with the following features among others:

* Open dozens of file formats, including photo cd, bmp, jpg, gif, Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, etc.

* Displays animations as animations (most other viewers display either first or last frame only)

* Can also be used to play sound files.

* Has a twain interface for scanning.

* Slide show feature.

* Buttons for going to next/previous image in directory (very fast).

* Batch conversion.

* Support of multi-page images.

etc., etc.

One of my favorite features is the way it is completely isolated from the Windows registry. The application consists of a single executable. Uninstalling is as simple as deleting the file. What a concept!

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