RE: Re[2]: Interesting Question!! Urgent

Rather than have an AS/400 program that launches PC programs upon certain
events (which would be horribly awkward for any but the most simple tasks)
why not have a PC program on one side talk to an AS/400 program on the
other side...   Have the PC program do the PC-related stuff like playing
the wav files, video clips and slide shows, and have the AS/400 side
(written, of course in RPG IV) do the AS/400 related stuff. 

This would work a whole lot better.

If you can't afford to buy a language like Visual Basic, Visual C, etc for
the PC side there are free languages available.  Heck, you might even
still be able to get Sun's JDK for free if you wanted to use Java.

Use sockets for communication, of course, that (almost) goes without
saying...



On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Mark A. Manske wrote:

> One question about this; as I see other "neat" things I could do in a
> project I am working on, being I have limited tools;  this works here, but,
> how would you for example: run mplayer2, let it play the wav file out, then
> return back to the CA session.  I have already gotten an ILE to use the
> callp to do this, however; the mplayer2 just hangs - if I could return
> control back to the CA session, I see some interesting potential here -
> power point slide shows, movie clips, or pictures associated with say a part
> number; a sneaky way to get graphics or other "PC" style objects on a 5250
> emulation when you cannot get VRPG, or some other advanced client server
> tools and have to stay within a small room, no windows, just a candle for
> light, heat, and friendship ;)
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Mark A. Manske
> [mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com]
> Sr. Project Lead
> Minter-Weisman
> 
> 

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