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Thank you for your helps. I have tried the ShellExecuteEx in the following
code. Code successfully starts the Notepad.exe but it fails to send message
to it which I think due to not being able to get the handle to the executed
app (notepad.exe). So can you see where I'm doing wrong?

. . .
  SHELLEXECUTEINFO ShellInfo; // Name structure
  memset(&ShellInfo, 0, sizeof(ShellInfo)); // Set up memory block
  ShellInfo.cbSize = sizeof(ShellInfo); // Set up structure size
  ShellInfo.hwnd = NULL;//Handle; // Calling window handle
  ShellInfo.lpVerb = "open"; // Open the file with default program
  ShellInfo.lpFile = "Notepad.exe"; // File to open
  ShellInfo.nShow = SW_NORMAL; // Open in normal window
 ShellInfo.fMask = SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS; // Necessary if you want to wait
for spawned process (Is problem here?)
 bool Okay = ShellExecuteEx(&ShellInfo); // Call to function

  if (Okay) {
     //WaitForSingleObject(ShellInfo.hProcess, INFINITE); // wait forever
for process to finish
     Sleep(1000);
     HWND aHandle = ShellInfo.hProcess;
     SendMessage( aHandle,WM_SYSCOMMAND,SC_MAXIMIZE,0 );
     How to get Process ID from aHandle?
  }


"Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:41208c52@newsgroups.borland.com...
> The easiest way is to change the code to start it with CreateProcess
> or with ShellExecuteEx so that you already have the process id when
> the call finishes.
>
> If you know the caption of the window that the program you are
> launching and it is unique you could use FindWindow to get the window
> handle (the HWND) and then call GetWindowThreadProcessId
>
> If you can't do either of the above then look at the set of functions
> CreateToolhelp32Snapshot, Process32First,  Process32Next and
> CloseHandle.
>
> .  Ed
>
> zoom wrote in message
> > news:41208174$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > How to get the process ID of the program started by the following
> > line of
> > code
> >
> > ShellExecute(Handle, "open", "c:\\Windows\\notepad.exe", NULL, NULL,
> > SW_SHOWNORMAL);
>
>