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ShellExecute but wait for completion?

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From

03/04/2000 17:02:34

Andrew Coates
Microsoft Australia
North Ryde, Australia

To

03/04/2000 12:11:19

Nigel Coates
NBC Software Services
Celbridge, Ireland

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Forum:

Visual FoxPro

Category:

Windows API functions

Title:

Re: ShellExecute but wait for completion?

Miscellaneous

Thread ID:

00354373

Message ID:

00354598

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10

Nigel,

* create an instance of the WSH Shell object
local loShell
loShell = createobject('wscript.shell')
* 0 = minimised window for the command, .t. = wait for a return value
lnResult = loShell.Run(m.lcCommandLine, 0, .t.)

Cheers,

Andrew

>I need to call an old 16bit exe file so I'm using ShellExecute. The only problem is that I also need to wait for completion of this third-party executable before my VFP app can continue processing.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>TIA,

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