Re: Open Application With ShellExecuteEx

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:37:51 -0500
Message-ID:
<447f5015$0$23737$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com>
Yes It closes normally. (that's what I ment when I said your code works
fine).

AliR.

"Jay" <patelj27b@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1149190576.750406.215850@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

Alir,
  Thanks for your input. When you try to close word using that code
below, does it close normally? Over here, word doesn't close, and you
get that window popping up after a while complaining of it taking too
long.

-Jay
(patelj27b at gmail dot com)

AliR wrote:

The code you posted works fine, when I test it and open a word document.

(I

didn't try the empty one)

AliR.

"Jay" <patelj27b@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1149186021.723978.24240@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Hello,
  A portion of the code is below. Nothing that I am doing is all that
fancy. Also, nothing really depends on when Word exits, it is just

that

Word should be able to exit cleanly regardless if it is opened with
ShellExecuteEx or by a user double clicking on the word icon.

/********************************************************************/
/* CHECK TO SEE IF FILENAME BEGINS WITH __. */
/* IF IT DOES, THEN OPEN BLANK APP FOR THAT EXT */
/********************************************************************/
if(strstr(chAppData,EMPTY_FILE) != NULL)
{
strcpy(compFileName,BLANK_FILE_DIR);
strcat(compFileName,chAppData);
newFileHandle = CreateFile( compFileName,
0,
FILE_SHARE_READ,
NULL,
CREATE_ALWAYS,
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY,
NULL);
CloseHandle(newFileHandle);
ShExecStruct.lpFile = compFileName;

}
else
ShExecStruct.lpFile = chAppData;

ShExecStruct.cbSize = sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO);
ShExecStruct.fMask = SEE_MASK_FLAG_NO_UI | SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS;
ShExecStruct.hwnd = NULL;
ShExecStruct.lpVerb = "open";
ShExecStruct.lpParameters = NULL;
ShExecStruct.lpDirectory = NULL;
ShExecStruct.nShow = SW_MAXIMIZE;

retVal = ShellExecuteEx(&ShExecStruct);

AliR wrote:

It would help if you could post the code you are using to open the

file,

and

any related code (for example code that would be waiting for it to

close).

AliR.

"Jay" <patelj27b@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1149175346.095652.205310@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

Hello,
  I have an issue and I don't know if this is the correct group to

post

to. If it isn't, just tell me the correct group, and I will post

there.

I wrote a Visual C++ application that will open a Word doc using
ShellExecuteEx based on the filename. When a user tries to close

the

word doc it hangs and then gives a message which says "This

application

is taking longer than expected to ..." . When a user opens Word
independently, then it can close normally. What would cause Word

to

have this issue when being opened from ShellExecuteEx?

-Jay
(patelj27b at gmail dot com)

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