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Re: How to run another program

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From: Maurice Anderson
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:35
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Thank You Giovanni!!  It worked and it saved me alot of ime.

"Giovanni Benintende" <benint@gbsoft.it> wrote in message
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>
> "Maurice Anderson" <mauriceanderson@hotmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> > I would like to run/start a GUI.exe or Console.exe program in the
OnClick
> > event of a button.  Anyone know how to do this?
> >
> >
>
> Maurice, here is complete function:
>
> bool SpawnExec(HWND Handle, String CmdLine, bool Minimized, bool Wait)
> {
> STARTUPINFO si;
> PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
> DWORD iExitCode;
> bool bRet;
>
>   if (Minimized)
>     ShowWindow(Handle, SW_MINIMIZE);
>   ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(si));
>   bRet = CreateProcess(NULL, CmdLine.c_str(), NULL, NULL, false,
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi);
>   if (bRet) {
>     CloseHandle(pi.hThread);
>     if (Wait)
>       WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE);
>     GetExitCodeProcess(pi.hProcess, &iExitCode);
> //  iExitCode contains the process exit code
>     }
>   CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
>   if (Minimized)
>     ShowWindow(Handle, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
>   return bRet;
> }
>
>
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