Calling Shellexec

kvarnerexpress

Aug 5 2005, 07:54 PM

I am with problem - it would be great to call some external programm from Delphi, wait - till it executes and exits and only then continue work of my Delphi program, how can I do this. I tried ShellExec and ShellExecEx - however - it only calls program and exits - it would be great to registre some handler - which monitors when this called program exits?

Any design ideas for such an problem could be very helpful, thanks in advance

Kvarnerexpress

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Inspiron

Aug 6 2005, 10:03 AM

I don't know about Delphi and I came across the same problem with I was doing on Visual Basic.
What I did was to call a DOS prompt, you may like to try it.

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DeveloperX

Apr 11 2006, 07:09 AM

QUOTE(kvarnerexpress @ Aug 5 2005, 07:54 PM)

I am with problem - it would be great to call some external programm from Delphi, wait - till it executes and exits and only then continue work of my Delphi program, how can I do this. I tried ShellExec and ShellExecEx - however - it only calls program and exits - it would be great to registre some handler - which monitors when this called program exits?

Any design ideas for such an problem could be very helpful, thanks in advance
Kvarnerexpress

well... guyz...

CODE

Shellapi.ShellExecute(
application.Handle,'open',pchar('program path'),pchar('parameters'),'',1
);

Note:
last parameter (1) gets window state!

maximazed, minimized, normal,focused,unfocused and so on...

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