🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks Remy,

I wasn't expecing a response to this after I found the cause of the initial
problem (hence my long delay in seeing this message and responding) but I
appreciate your feedback, It definately looks a lot simpler and easier than
my existing code.. I will give it a go.

Thanks

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
> news:42c49e3e$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> > An easier, and more reliable, way is to use WaitForSingleObject()
instead.
> > CreateProcess() returns the HANDLE for the newly spawned process.  You
> > can pass that HANDLE to WaitForSingleObject(), which will not return
until
> > the process has terminated.
>
> For example:
>
>     bool __fastcall RunProgram(const AnsiString &FileName, const
AnsiString
> &Params, bool WaitUntilExit = true)
>     {
>         AnsiString CmdLine;
>         if( Params.IsEmpty() )
>             CmdLine = FileName;
>         else
>             CmdLine = (AnsiQuotedStr(FileName) + " " + Params);
>
>         STARTUPINFO si = {sizeof(STARTUPINFO), 0};
>         PROCESS_INFORMATION pi = {0};
>
>         // fill in si as needed...
>
>         if( CreateProcess(FileName.c_str(), CmdLine.c_str(), NULL,  NULL,
> FALSE,  0, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi) )
>         {
>             if( WaitUntilExit )
>                 WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE);
>
>             CloseHandle(pi.hThread);
>             CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
>
>             return true;
>         }
>
>         return false;
>     }
>
>
>     {
>         if( RunProgram("c:\\path\\Bubba.exe", "first set of parameters") )
>             RunProgram("c:\\path\\Bubba.exe", "second set of parameters");
>     }
>
>
> Gambit
>
>