Step 5 Execute the Form from the Windows Start Menu

Step 5. Execute the Form from the Windows Start Menu

VED040 - Execute Applications

In this step you will execute the application from the Windows start menu. When you run the form in this way, you are starting it as a normal Windows application, outside of the development environment.

Icons are provided in the LANSA folder, which enable a form or a process to be run locally or in client server mode against the iSeries server.

When you connect in RDMLX mode, you can read and write data types such as String, Datetime and BLOB to and from the iSeries server.

    1.  Find the form XDXStart on the Repository tab. Right click on a column heading and ensure that the Identifier column is shown.

2.  Note the Indentifier for the form XDXStart is XDX00068:

     If Long Names are enabled at partition level, all Repository objects have both a Name and an Indentifier. If you opened XDXStart in the editor and selected the Repository tab, you would find the following information:

     Name provides a long name which can be used to reference the object in your RDMLX code.

     Identifier is assigned automatically when you create an object, must be unique within the partition and may be up to 9 characters long. The Identifier may be manually set, but only at create time.

3.  From the Windows Start menu, expand LANSA and select Exec Form.

4.  To execute the form XDXStart using the Execute Form dialog, you must use its Identifier, XDX00068. You must also execute it as a DirectX application (Render Type = X)

5.  If you have questions about any of these parameters, click Parameter Help button.

6.  Press OK to execute the form.

7.  Execute part of the DirectX Examples application and then close it.