The OpenInsight Windows Add-on Manager (OIWAM) is a tool for adding ActiveX controls, OCXs, and COM components to your OpenInsight applications.

Note: If you are using OpenInsight 7.0 or greater then you should use the OIdotNET for adding 3rd party components to your OI applications. It is much more powerful and flexible than the OIWAM.

The OIWAM allows you to add ADO objects, 2D graphs, 3D graphs, multimedia files, web browsers, serial communications, images, email, RTF, internet communications, and more to your OpenInsight applications. The OIWAM is completely expandable, and we can add any 3rd party AcitveX Control, OCX, or COM component to the OIWAM. The OIWAM is simple to use, and will work with the 16-bit OpenInsight and 32-bit OpenInsight on any 32-bit Windows operating system.

The major improvements in the OIWAM 2.0 include: support for data that is greater than 64K, faster multithreaded design, better control isolation that allows you to deploy just the controls that your application is using, and better support for 3rd party controls.

The OIWAM base engine is 250 US Dollars and the add-on controls are 150 US Dollars.

You can purchase the OIWAM online with a PayPal account.

• ADO - Access to external databases through Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects
• Chart - Display 2D and 3D charts, including bar, line, area, step, XY, and pie
• Communications - Serial communications control
• Email - MAPI email for sending and receiving emails
• Internet Transfer - FTP and HTTP transfer protocols
• Multimedia - Play AVI, WAV, and CD files
• Picture - Show BMP, ICO, WMF, GIF, and JPEG files
• RTF Textbox - Full RTF editor
• Web - Integrate the latest Internet Explorer web browser into your OpenInsight forms
• Winsock - Enables TCP and UDP communications

You can download a full version of the OIWAM for evaluation.

Follow these instructions to install the OpenInsight Windows Add-on Manager:

1. Backup your OpenInsight directory.
2. Uninstall previous versions of the OIWAM.
3. Download the ZIPed OIWAM Setup program.
4. Create an empty directory on your hard drive to unzip the file in.
5. Unzip the files from the OIWAM Setup program.
6. Run the SETUP.EXE program to install the OIWAM.
7. Log into the SYSPROG account.
8. Open the System Editor and run these commands from the Exec Line:
• RUN ATTACH_TABLE 'dir' (NOTE: 'dir' is the directory that contains the unzipped setup program)
• RUN COPY_ROW 'NEW_SYSPROCS', '*', 'SYSPROCS', '', '2', '1'
• RUN COPY_ROW 'NEW_SYSOBJ', '*', 'SYSOBJ', '', '2', '1'
• RUN REPOSITORY 'WRITE', 'SYSPROG*STPROCEXE**OIWAM', '', '1', '1', '', '', '', '', '', '', ''
9. Only run these two commands if you are using the 16-bit version of the OI:
• (16-bit OI Only) RUN DECLARE_FCNS 'DLL_OIWAM_USER'
• (16-bit OI Only) RUN DECLARE_FCNS 'DLL_OIWAM_KERNEL'