A ms-dos prompt related question

Hau!


A question about Visual Basic 6.0 SP5 in Windows ME:

Is there a way to run MS-Dos prompt in a VB-form? I mean that I would shell a exe and it should run in a window (created in vb) not in ms-dos prompt -window (as normally it would). Or if this is not possible how to run a program in a normal ms-dos prompt window but modify the title of window, e.g. "MS-Dos Prompt typhon.exe" to "MS-Dos Prompt typhon.exe - My app's name" or even better to "My app's name"?



Thanks a lot!!


BigL

If you really wanted a DOS prompt to appear inside a VB form, you could use SetParent on the hWnd of the DOS prompt to make it a child window of your form, but that isn't really very useful. It's still possible though. If you want to change the text that appears in the caption of the window, you'll need to use this.

VB Code:

'in a module
Public Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" (ByVal hWndParent As Long, ByVal hWndChild As Long, ByVal lpzClassName As String, ByVal lpzCaption As String) As Long
Public Declare Function SetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowTextA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal lpzString As String) As Long
 
'to get the hWnd of a DOS prompt (this gets the first one it sees, if any)
Dim hWndDOS As Long
hWndDOS = FindWindowEx(0, 0, "tty", vbNullString)
'to set a new caption in that window
SetWindowText hWndDOS, "A new caption"

The class of a DOS prompt window is "tty" in Win98, so it should still be the same in ME. I don't know about any Win version that's higher though.