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"CC" <Xcurtc@tmscorp.com> wrote in message
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> char *appname = "c:\mytest.exe";

You need to escape the backslash with another backslash:

    char *appname = "c:\\mytest.exe";

> When I call :
>
> CreateProcess(appname, args, .......);
>
> When application "mytest.exe"  calls  ParamCount(), the value is Zero.

There is a known bug I found in the ParamCount() and ParamStr() functions a
couple of months ago (reported as QC #3946).  It is a mix of both an OS
glitch coupled with a VCL parsing bug on top of it.

When calling CreateProcess() with both the lpApplicationName and
lpCommandLine parameters filled in, the OS does not include the
lpApplicationName as part of the command-line that is returned by the
GetCommandLine() function.  However, the VCL makes the assumption that the
lpApplicationName will always be present as the first parameter, so the
parsing functions are hard-coded to always ignore the first parameter.  But
that is not the case in this scenerio.  Since the OS does not always return
the lpApplicationName, and the VCL is actively ignoring the first parameter
being parsed regardless, and you are only passing in actual parameter in
your example, that is why the count comes out as 0.

> char *fullcmdline = "c:\mytest.exe /myarg1";
> CreateProcess(NULL,fullcmdline,.....);
> This works,

That is what you have to do to workaround the issue for the time being, yes.


Gambit