Re: Visual Basic Question: How to Kill "foreign" task

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From: Daniel Mittleman
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:39

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In article <m#w10cc@rpi.edu>, ncc1701@acm.rpi.edu writes...
>Hi,
> 
>I'm trying to write a program that does the following:
> 
>Invokes an external program, not related to the one I'm writing
>(For example, we'll assume I'm trying to run sol.exe)
> 
>When certain conditions exist, it terminates that program.
> 
>The way I do it now is to AppActivate "Solitaire"
>then SendKeys "%{F4}" (Alt-F4) to kill it.
> 
>This works great if the program is still running, but
>if the user has exited solitaire before the conditions are
>met, some OTHER program gets terminated (sometimes
>PGM MGR itself!)
> 
>Is there some way to use the number VBasic returns
>when you Shell the program?
>(i.e. something=Shell("C:\win\sol.exe",1) ???
> 
>HELP!
> 
>(Please email-I don't do a lot of windows pgming, and
>don't have time to peruse this group a lot)  THANKS!
> 
    I have the same question, so if someone emails to him please also post
    your response.

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