
SHELL and wait until the end of the program
Try this
Public T As Single
Private Type STARTUPINFO
cb As Long
lpReserved As String
lpDesktop As String
lpTitle As String
dwX As Long
dwY As Long
dwXSize As Long
dwYSize As Long
dwXCountChars As Long
dwYCountChars As Long
dwFillAttribute As Long
dwFlags As Long
wShowWindow As Integer
cbReserved2 As Integer
lpReserved2 As Long
hStdInput As Long
hStdOutput As Long
hStdError As Long
End Type
Private Type PROCESS_INFORMATION
hProcess As Long
hThread As Long
dwProcessID As Long
dwThreadID As Long
End Type
Private Declare Function WaitForSingleObject Lib "kernel32" (ByVal
hHandle As Long, ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function CreateProcessA Lib "kernel32" (ByVal
lpApplicationName As Long, ByVal lpCommandLine As String, ByVal
lpProcessAttributes As Long, ByVal lpThreadAttributes As Long, ByVal
bInheritHandles As Long, ByVal dwCreationFlags As Long, ByVal
lpEnvironment As Long, ByVal lpCurrentDirectory As Long, lpStartupInfo
As STARTUPINFO, lpProcessInformation As PROCESS_INFORMATION) As Long
Private Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hObject As
Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetExitCodeProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal
hProcess As Long, lpExitCode As Long) As Long
Private Const NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS = &H20&
Private Const INFINITE = -1&
Public Function ExecCmd(cmdline$)
Dim proc As PROCESS_INFORMATION
Dim start As STARTUPINFO ' Initialize the STARTUPINFO structure:
start.cb = Len(start) ' Start the shelled application:
Ret& = CreateProcessA(0&, cmdline$, 0&, 0&, 1&, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,
0&, 0&, start, proc) ' Wait for the shelled application to finish:
Ret& = WaitForSingleObject(proc.hProcess, INFINITE)
Call GetExitCodeProcess(proc.hProcess, Ret&)
Call CloseHandle(proc.hProcess)
ExecCmd = Ret&
End Function
Quote:
> You need to use the WaitForSingleObject API. Under NT you need to open the
> process token and add the synchronize right first. In 95/98 you don't need
> to do anything with the token...
> Jerry
> >In VB5, I don't know how to wait the end of the program after de SHELL
> >instruction
> >In VB3, I have use GetModuleUsage but it doesn't exist in API 32 !!!
> >Thanks for your help