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I have Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.2 (Personal Edition) Version 2.2.00151 with Visual Studio 2012 running under Windows 8.1, and all is well

I have written a specific backup program in COBOL that copies certain nominated files to a backup holding area on my hard drive, and it works fine and performs date and time stamping along the way

I'd like to have an icon i can click that will automatically start Vis Cobol and run the backup program (and then VC shut down?)

Somehow, I recall I have seen something along these lines happening while I have been clicking away in the past but I can't find how to get it to happen again

i googled for the answer but didn't get anything in the MF doco that I felt was what I wanted

Does anyone know how I can set up an icon to click and automation is started?

Or, any alternate ideas I could use for specific backups?

Thanks in advance

Paul

I have Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.2 (Personal Edition) Version 2.2.00151 with Visual Studio 2012 running under Windows 8.1, and all is well

I have written a specific backup program in COBOL that copies certain nominated files to a backup holding area on my hard drive, and it works fine and performs date and time stamping along the way

I'd like to have an icon i can click that will automatically start Vis Cobol and run the backup program (and then VC shut down?)

Somehow, I recall I have seen something along these lines happening while I have been clicking away in the past but I can't find how to get it to happen again

i googled for the answer but didn't get anything in the MF doco that I felt was what I wanted

Does anyone know how I can set up an icon to click and automation is started?

Or, any alternate ideas I could use for specific backups?

Thanks in advance

Paul

Hi Paul,

I am not sure why you need to start Visual COBOL in order to run the application.

If you have created an .exe as your output file you should be able to create a shortcut on your desktop that points to that .exe file in the output folder and it will run without starting the Visual COBOL development environment first.

I have Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.2 (Personal Edition) Version 2.2.00151 with Visual Studio 2012 running under Windows 8.1, and all is well

I have written a specific backup program in COBOL that copies certain nominated files to a backup holding area on my hard drive, and it works fine and performs date and time stamping along the way

I'd like to have an icon i can click that will automatically start Vis Cobol and run the backup program (and then VC shut down?)

Somehow, I recall I have seen something along these lines happening while I have been clicking away in the past but I can't find how to get it to happen again

i googled for the answer but didn't get anything in the MF doco that I felt was what I wanted

Does anyone know how I can set up an icon to click and automation is started?

Or, any alternate ideas I could use for specific backups?

Thanks in advance

Paul

Hi Chris

Thanks - that works fine now.  I also came across the 'missing cblrtsm.dll' problem and was able to google a solution you wrote up and I set the Run-time Model property to Dynamic, created a shortcut for my taskbar and it works fine.

Paul

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