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- From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
- Subject: Re: WPS Program objects from cmd, Rexx, or C
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Sep04.145541.51099@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 14:55:41 GMT
- News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.11 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
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- Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
- References: <Bu1zIH.3u6@world.std.com>
- Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research
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- In <Bu1zIH.3u6@world.std.com> bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda) writes:
- > I set up program objects' settings so that by double-clicking on them in
- > the WPS I can launch them in wonderful ways. For example, I can set up
- > a desktop Program Object to launch a program in a DOS session with such-and-
- > such memory and window, etc... Now I can launch this program with these
- > setting whenever I want by using a mouse on the shell. But is there any
- > way to launch these same programs with the same settings from the command
- > line or from Rexx or from C programming?
- > Can messages be sent to the shell?
- > Are the settings saved somewhere accesible?
- >
-
- Yes, they are (if you know the OBJECT_ID of the object, and you have the very
- latest REXX20 updates). You can use SysSetObjectData to open an object that
- exists on the desktop, or you can use SysCreateObject with <WP_NOWHERE> and
- (I think) "OPEN=DEFAULT" in the setup string parameter.
-
- --
- Cliff Nadler (cnadler@vnet.ibm.com)
- IBM Federal Systems Company - TEAM OS/2
-
- Disclaimer: This post represents the views of the poster, not IBM Corporation.
-