Hi Ria,

Your problem was explored by Vladimir Zhuravlev UT ID #009278. We're currently preparing an article about it for October Issue of UT Magazine. You can contact Vladimir in the meantime. He used Delphi and FoxPro communication, but I guess, PowerBuilder would be somewhat close...


>Hi,
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>How do I start a PowerBuilder or a Visual BAsic application from FoxPro?
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>When the user clicks a button in my FoxPro application, I want to start an application in Powerbuilder, passing certain parameters to it. Then the PowerBuilder application will take over and when the user exits the PB application, he should return to the FoxPro application.
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>Will createProcess & WaitforSingleobject be a good way to do this?
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>Or should I use createobject? When using createobject to start a VisualBasic application, what would be the name of the class and object. I tried it as:
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>ovb = createobject('VisualBasic.application')
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>But this did not work.
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>Thanks in advance.
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>Ria