How to embed an app.

[Alejandro Ochoa]

I would like to embed an app, lets say Word within a form, does anyone have an example or pointers on how to do this?

[Ghost308]

Use the OLE control to embed the MS Word object (or specific word file) onto the form. When you apply the control to the form, a wizard will prompt you for the app/file you want to embed to your form.

[ant]

i tried that. That just shows the icon of the exe

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[Ghost308]

In the "Insert Object" dialog, did you have the "Display as Icon" setting checked? If that doesn't help, try letting it "Create From File" and create a template file for that app. Hope that helps some!

[Alejandro Ochoa]

Thanks for your reply, but unfortunately the app Im trying to embed does not have an OLE connection(Word was just an example), even though I tried what you told me because the app creates sort of a Telnet session, the product is called SmarTerm, I refer the file from my app, and it shows the icon, when I double click it it runs an instance of the app, but not within my form.

Ill try to find another way, if you or somebody else knows of a way, please let me know.

Thanks.

Alejandro.