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    #16
    RE: The inevitable has happened

    As I mentioned to Ira before, I couldn't get sys_send_keys to work but I did have a way to reliably start another application. Your questions prompted me to look it up.

    Attached is a "Launcher" that I've used in the past to start multiple A5 apps. It uses the following script on the "OnDoubleClick" event of the browse table to open another A5 window with the new application running:

    app = parentform:Browse1:Db_Name.text

    sys_shell( "D:\a5v4\alpha5.exe "+app+" -title="+parentform:browse1:app_name.text)

    END

    In this case, "D:\a5v4\alpha5.exe" is the full pathname of my A5 executable but this could easily be "calculated" by the program. In fact, some of the directory variables Ira created may have already done this.

    Of course, the "-title=" is not required but it helps in the "launcher" because the name will then appear in the button on the Win98 task bar.

    Adding :A5.close() to a line just before the END statement will close the current application and A5 window leaving only the new app. (For my "launcher" I wanted to keep the launcher open so I could go back to it via the Win98 task bar and start another app.)

    I haven't had the time to work on adding this to the script Ira and I have been 'collaborating' on but it shouldn't be too difficult.

    Cal

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      #17
      RE: The inevitable has happened

      Cal,

      This method may work for this need as all you are going to do is open the new app just to run the optimization and then close it. I probably would minimize the new application for a couple of reasons.

      1. Unfortunately, startup icon, splash, title etc startup options will not be the same as as your current invokation of A5. Of course this could be specified on the command line, but it requires you to specify something that you should not need for the purposes of doing a full optimization from the shadowed version (in order to make it generic). You don't want them to see A5 icon or titles, do you?

      2. There will probably be a lot of flashing.

      I think my method will work, but I sort of hate to imbed the optimization code into the AUTOEXEC script (I would probably just copy it verbatim as an inline function). I think it would be more generic and eliminate the above problems. I will be checking it out in the next couple of days

      Regards,

      Ira J. Perlow
      Computer Systems Design & Associates
      [email protected]
      Regards,

      Ira J. Perlow
      Computer Systems Design


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        #18
        RE: The inevitable has happened

        Tom, I join you. This evening, while installing the runtime on a computer, I accidentally copied the shadow over the source, wiping out all of today's work. Fortunately, I backed up last night. But, wait till my bookkeeper finds out tomorrow morning!

        PS: I don't understand how this happended. I installed the runtime, loaded the app, selected Network Optimize, selected (what I thought) was the shadow folder, and clicked OK. I suspect that the displayed folder was the source, not the shadow - but, I didn't navigate to it. From now on when setting up the shadow on a new computer, I'm *copying* the shadow from another computer, period.
        Peter
        AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

         [email protected]
        https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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          #19
          RE: The inevitable has happened

          Peter, if you use the script Ira finalized under the "Code Archive"/"Automated Network Optimize", that won't be a problem anymore.

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