Launching an application from another application

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From: David Veale
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:03

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I have a simple, single-threaded app that I'm writing in BCB5 using the VCL.
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.  When the user's done
with App2 they need to be able to close it and get back to App1 where they
left off.  I've looked at the "spawn" functions but I'm having trouble
getting them to work.  Is there an "elegant" and/or BCB/VCL preferred way to
do this?  Thanks!

David

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