Background engine

Question

Hello my friends,
I'm developing forms & reports on windows 98.
When i call reports (in forms menu), i all ways have background engine running. I can't
do anything unless i close it. It creates also
a file telling me when i run reports and when
it's ended. I don't know how to come over of
this anoying thing.
If you can help me, please,i'm waiting for your responses.
Many thanks.
dB.
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Answer 1

Here's a proc that I have in Forms and does just that:
PROCEDURE run_rep (x_file in varchar2) IS
-- run report
cmdstr varchar2(200);
the_username varchar2(20);
the_password varchar2(20);
the_connect varchar2(20);
pl_id paramlist;
begin
--- this does it with bg. reports engine
Run_Product(REPORTS, replace(x_file, '.rep', '')| |'.rep',
SYNCHRONOUS, RUNTIME,FILESYSTEM, pl_id, NULL);
the_username := Get_Application_Property(USERNAME);
the_password := Get_Application_Property(PASSWORD);
the_connect := Get_Application_Property(CONNECT_STRING);
cmdstr:='R30RUN32.EXE module='| |
replace(x_file, '.rep', '')| |'.rep userid='| |
the_username| |'/'| |the_password| |'@'| |the_connect| |' usesdi=yes';
host (cmdstr);
END;
This goes for Reports 3.0. If you have a different reports version, then you'd have to replace R30RUN32.EXE with what is suitable.
Regards,
BD.