>hello,
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>I need to launch a silent install of acrobat reader. Two things happen when I use the run command,
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>1. The screen flashes with a dos window then starts the installation.
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>2. My launching program continues to the next command even though the installation of adobe reader is not finished.
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>Any ideas on how I can start the installation without the dos window and have my launching program wait until the installation is complete.
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>Thanks,
>
Greg,

I use the WScript.Shell object's Run method in these sort of instances. For example, assuming that the program is setup.exe and it accepts a /q parameter for silent installs

oShell = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Shell")
oShell.Run("setup.exe /q", 0, .T.)

will cause the setup program to silently execute and the caller to wait until the program closes.

For more information, see the series of articles that Ed Rauh and I wrote on the Windows Script Host, beginning with the first article in September, 2000. It's available in the VFUG newsletters section on-line at www.vfug.org. The Shell was covered in the October issue.