Question for the advanced

[Inhumanoid]

I am making a program that starts other exactutables. Some executables will take some time to load. In that time I want my program to display an animation. I want the animation to stop when the executable(program) is fully loaded.
The executables that are started by my program can't comunicate with my program becuase I did not make them.

Is there a way that I can make my program detect when an aplication that it started is fully loaded (not finished) ??

I know Windows can detect it so I reckon a vb app should be able to detect it too..

[Serge]

You can call your animation before you Shell your program:


Dim dblID As Double

'--------------------------
'Show your animation here
'--------------------------

dblID = Shell("C:\YourExternalProgram.exe",vbNormalNoFocus)
Do Until dblID <> 0
DoEvents
Loop

'------------------------
'Hide your animation here
'------------------------




Regards,

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Serge

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[Inhumanoid]

Cool :) , and easy :)

[Inhumanoid]

My animation halts as soon as the code goes into the do while loop.... Can I solve this ??

[Yonatan]

That's because the loop does nothing at all and exits immediately... You could try using CreateProcess and WaitForSingleObject though.

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[Inhumanoid]

How do I use that??

[Serge]

There's already a Tip (http://www.vb-world.net/tips/tip5.html) on this site.


Regards,

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Serge

Software Developer
Serge_Dymkov@vertexinc.com
Access8484@aol.com
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[Inhumanoid]

Serge,

What does that tip have to do with this problem ??

I want my animation (be it: avi,gif,picturebox with changing content, or whatever) to start when I load an app and stop when the app is loaded... I do not want the animation to stop when the app is finished (that's what the tip is about)

Your code work's great but when it goes into the do while loop the animation is halted

[Inhumanoid]

I meant do until, not do while (sorry)