At this point, the Openwings core is running, the explorer is
running, and components have been successfully installed. Before
you can run executable components, they must be installed and
they must be in a
RESOLVED state. Components can be in a number of states. The
states of components are discussed in the
Dependency Resolution section of the Developing
Components trail.
In the explorer, expand the tree view to list the installed components.
If an asterisk appears next to a component name (it will also
be yellow), it is executable. Right-click a component and select
Properties to see more information about the state of each component.
If Resolved appears next to "Install State:",
you are good to go.
You can run your component inside a container by using the pop-up
menu command "Run...". Alternatively, you can simply
double-click the component in the tree view. Another option is
to run your component outside a container. To do this, use owrun.bat
(or owrun.csh). The owrun script takes the components InstallableComponentDescriptorPolicy
as an argument. An example use of owrun is shown below:
owrun X:\my_dir\HelloWorldProvider_im-0.1\policies\InstallableComponentDescriptorPolicy.xml
Regardless which way you choose, you should be able to see your
component run.
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