Alternative to shell.application.shellexecute

Hi

I'm trying to write a piece of code that will zip a file to a winrar archive and then email the archive. I'm currently using shellexecute, but this is asynchronous it kicks off the command "winrar a file.txt archive.rar" and then moves to the next command. Whereas I wish to wait for the rar file to be created before I attach the file and send my email message.

Does anyone have an alternative ?

Separate the two into two different click events.

Hi Hack,

Sorry I should have replied to this. I was actually trying to achieve this in an VB activex/dll. I've actually managed to do it using windows API

VB Code:

Private Declare Function FindExecutable Lib "shell32.dll" Alias _
"FindExecutableA" (ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, _
ByVal lpResult As String) As Long
 
 
Private Declare Function OpenProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwDesiredAccess _
As Long, ByVal bInheritHandle As Long, ByVal dwProcessId As Long) As Long
 
Private Declare Function WaitForSingleObject Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hHandle _
As Long, ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) As Long
 
Private Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hObject As Long) As Long
 
Const SYNCHRONIZE As Long = &H100000
Const INFINITE As Long = &HFFFFFFFF
 
 
Public Sub ShellAndWait(ByVal program_name As String, ByVal window_style As VbAppWinStyle)
Dim process_id As Long
Dim process_handle As Long
Dim lngdb  As Long
 
    ' Start the program.
    process_id = Shell(program_name, window_style)
    'process_id = ShellExecute(Me.hWnd, "open", program_name, vbNullString, App.Path, 1)
 
 
    ' Wait for the program to finish.
    ' Get the process handle.
    process_handle = OpenProcess(SYNCHRONIZE, 0, process_id)
    If process_handle <> 0 Then
        WaitForSingleObject process_handle, INFINITE
        CloseHandle process_handle
    End If
 
End Sub

Thanks