Well, you need a shortcut with some kind of Progress Call and a link to the program/query to be called.
For instance, if your Progress installation was C:\PROGRESS and you had to connect to a database using a particular PF file, say myprogram.pf and wanted to run a program/query called myquery.p, then this would be a command line for the shortcut:
C:\PROGRESS\BIN\PROWIN32.EXE -basekey "ini" -ininame "progres1.ini" -pf myprogram.pf -p myquery.p
Don't forget to set the Working Directory to be the one containing your Progress code/programs.
However, what I tend to do is to wrap these around in a little program that handles quitting to the OS so that I can use the same code in menus or as stand-alone programs.
Here, my Parameter File (runprog.pf) would be something like:
-yy 1950
-pf mydb.pf
-p runprog.p
And my database PF (db.pf) would be something like:
-db mydb -N tcp -H myhost -S mydb
The shortcut would be something like:
C:\PROGRESS\BIN\PROWIN32.EXE -basekey "ini" -ininame "progres1.ini" -pf runprog.pf -param myquery.p
or, more simply if you are not using external INI files:
C:\PROGRESS\BIN\PROWIN32.EXE -pf runprog.pf -param myquery.p
When you run this, it connects the databases from mydb.pf, starts runprog.p, takes myqeury.p as a parameter, runs myquery.p and quits back to the OS.
I hope that helps.
Simon
