>I need to be able to open a .tif file from my VFP application. My VFP app needs to wait until the user is done with the .tif file and then continue the execution. Currently i'm using ShellExecute which opens the file as it should, but it don't allow me to wait for close. How can I do that?
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>I've searched microsoft.com and found the file runwait.exe which holds the source code for a library called runlib.dll, unfortanly I don't have Visual C++ to compile the program. Has anyone else looked at the program?

Another option is the Windows Script Host's Shell object. It has a method named Run that allows you to specify that the caller is to wait for the called program to terminate prior to completely. See the October issue of the VFUG newsletter, available on-line at www.vfug.org, for details in the October issue on the Shell Object. The September issue contains the first article in the series and gives information on things like how to determine if it's installed, and where to find more details.