Cetin,

I get an error on the second instance of Word (problems reading normal.dot) if I just highlight and execute this code:

ShellExecute( hDCScreen, "open", "winword.exe", "", "c:\", 1 )
ShellExecute( hDCScreen, "open", "winword.exe", "", "c:\", 1 )

This seems to work ok though:

ShellExecute( hDCScreen, "open", "winword.exe", "", "c:\", 1 )
inkey( 2 )
ShellExecute( hDCScreen, "open", "winword.exe", "", "c:\", 1 )

The 2 seconds is enough for the first instance of Word to get up and running before starting the second. Can you not just use a simple delay to generally solve your problem?


>Unfortunately same side effect. Say user wanted to launch winword 2 times (main.app dispatches requests to another exe). Second call to word doesn't wait.
>PS: Shell* call CreateProcess and they use WaitForSingleObject which is defeated by apps. making DDE brodcast.