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Re: how to start an application from inside my code?

#16695
From: StarCinema - Rodolfo Frino
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:17
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void __fastcall TForm1::Button1Click(TObject *Sender)
{
    STARTUPINFO StartupInfo;
    PROCESS_INFORMATION ProcInfo;

    ZeroMemory(&StartupInfo, sizeof(StartupInfo));
    StartupInfo.cb = sizeof(StartupInfo);
    ZeroMemory(&ProcInfo, sizeof(ProcInfo));

    if( !CreateProcess( NULL,
        "c:\\program files\\outlook express\\wab.exe",
        NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &StartupInfo, &ProcInfo))
    {
        ShowMessage("CreateProcess failed.");
    }

    // Wait until the child process exits
    WaitForSingleObject(ProcInfo.hProcess, INFINITE);

    CloseHandle(ProcInfo.hProcess);
    CloseHandle(ProcInfo.hThread);
}

Rodolfo
Stargate Software
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~rodolfofrino/


"Richard Yu" <richard@colorselector.com> wrote in message
news:3eaef833@newsgroups.borland.com...
> I want to start an exe application from inside my  code, how can i do that
?
>
> example : like to start a "aApplication param1 param2",    aApplication is
> an exe.
>
> something like shellexecute() ?
>
> thanks for the help.
>
>
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