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Article #13141Re: Launching an application from another application
From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:26
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:26
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"David Veale" <davidv@heavymettle.com> wrote in message news:3f9ecbef@newsgroups.borland.com... > I want to be able to click a button on my app (App1) > and have it launch another BCB5 VCL EXE (App2) > that's on the computer. Have a look at the WinExec(), ShellExecute/Ex(), and CreateProcess() functions in the Win32 API. > When the user's done with App2 they need to be able to close > it and get back to App1 where they left off. If you mean that you want App1 to wait under App2 is closed before then continuing, then only ShellExecuteEx() and CreateProcess() provide for that. Both can return the HANDLE for the spawned process, which you can then pass to WaitForSingleObject() to wait until the spawned process has terminated. Gambit
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