Synchronising VB with a shelled Word Perfect macro

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3 total messages Started by Gil Murray Sun, 19 Nov 1995 00:00

#271

Author: Gil Murray
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 00:00

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Hi,

I'm trying to shell a Word Perfect macro from Visual Basic, then hold
VB back from further execution until the macro has completed:

X% = Shell("d:\office\wpwin\wpwin.exe /m-a:path.wcm",2)
Templatefile$ = "c:\windows\path.tmp"      'the macro will create this
   Do Until FileExists(Templatefile$)
   Loop

The last line of the short three line macro path.wcm does a
FileSave(Filename:" c:\windows\path.tmp"...) so theoretically the VB
loop should exit when it finds that path.tmp has been created.

However, the loop seems to "steal" the processor before the macro even
reaches its second line (Type: ?PathTemplate) and never returns
execution to the macro. Result, an infinite loop, because path.tmp is
never created!

I'm running VB 3.0 on Windows '95 with Word Perfect 6.1. I get the
same behaviour on Windows 3.11. I've also tried calling the macro via
DDEexecute - same problem.

Has anyone come across a workround for this?

Thanks,

    Gil

Re: Synchronising VB with a shelled Word Perfect macro

#269

Author: Jens Balchen Jr.
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <48o83b$8e5@soap.news.pipex.net>, gil@dial.pipex.com (Gil
Murray) wrote:

>I'm trying to shell a Word Perfect macro from Visual Basic, then hold
>VB back from further execution until the macro has completed:

>X% = Shell("d:\office\wpwin\wpwin.exe /m-a:path.wcm",2)
>Templatefile$ = "c:\windows\path.tmp"      'the macro will create this
>   Do Until FileExists(Templatefile$)

DoEvents

>   Loop

Jens
* Everything I said are the opinions of someone else.   *
* I just cut-and-pasted.                                *

Jens Balchen jr.
balchen@oslonett.no
P.O.Box 6052
N-4602 Kristiansand

Re: Synchronising VB with a shelled Word Perfect macro

#270

Author: Gil Murray
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 00:00

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Yes!

Thank you Jens, and also Henk Op den Brouw who gave me the same advice
by e-mail.

Cheers,

   Gil

balchen@oslonett.no (Jens Balchen Jr.) wrote:

<snip>
>>X% = Shell("d:\office\wpwin\wpwin.exe /m-a:path.wcm",2)
>>Templatefile$ = "c:\windows\path.tmp"      'the macro will create this
>>   Do Until FileExists(Templatefile$)

>DoEvents

>>   Loop

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