Anybody? Please............. ???
I've tried all the options for the final parameter in Shellexecute (0-9) and only 2 works, but it goes back to Normal instead of staying minimized.
>Hi again, Gang!
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>Here is a snippet of code in an executable, called LDM.exe.
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>lcExe = "SpoolZebra.Exe"
>lcPrinter = SET("PRINTER",2)
>lcDefaultLoc = SYS(5) + SYS(2003) + "\"
>lcFileName = "/" + lcFileName + "/"
>ShellExecute(0,"open",lcExe,lcFileName + lcPrinter,lcDefaultLoc,2)
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>When run in VFP8 SP1, the ShellExecute opens the program SpoolZebra.exe and minimizes it immediately to the taskbar and runs it (prints a document).
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>When run in VFP9 SP2, it minimizes, then pops back up to Normal size and prints the document. (BAD BAD BAD !!! That interfers with the normal program flow.).
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>I changed the 2 to a 7 in the ShellExecute to see if it would stay minimized.
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>It did, but it DID NOT PRINT !! Weird !! Why would it not print in this case???
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>So, bascially, we want it to stay minimized, yet print the document.
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>So, any ideas what is going wrong here?
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>Thanks everyone!!!
Tommy Tillman A+ NetWork+ MCP