I am writing a program in VBA that calls another program in DOS to be run interatively. I have it so that it calls the program and keeps it minimized, but everytime the DOS program restarts the DOS shell becomes the focused window so if I am typing in Word, the cursor is moved to the DOS shell. Is there a way to make it so the program is called in DOS totally in the background?
Sun, 04 Jan 2004 01:27:22 GMT
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Running Programs in DOS Shell
Brian,
You may want to look into the IWShell objects surfaced by...Microsoft Scripting Runtime (?). These objects not only give you Shell() functionality to run other apps, but also let you control whether those other apps are to be run synchronously and visibly.
Running Programs in DOS Shell