starting a program.. and having it return a value

[Evan]

is there anyway to start a program
from my program and have it return me a value?

(It would also be my program)





[Edited by Evan on 10-05-2000 at 09:40 PM]

RetVal = Shell("C:\program.exe", vbNormalFocus)

[Evan]

How then would i make retval a value that
i want..

RetVal = yourvalue

[Evan]

no..

I Am Using One APP

I open another app with some Run-tim arguments
and it returns the other open app a value
based on the arguements ..

[Evan]

hmm..


your still missing it.. thanks though.
I guess Ill just figure out a
different way to do what i want.

[LAURENS]

Matthew seems to be mixing up passing and returning values.

As far as I know VB programs cannot return values the way eg. c-programs can. You can let the started program put something on disk and let the program where it was started from read this value after the other one has finished.

[mlewis]

there's a way using certain APIs I do not recall which ones that you can return values like a C program. Look up Proccess in MSDN and you should find related APIs

I know it can be done, but how is another matter.

[Evan]

Thankyou,

(Thankyou is usually followed by but)
But, when I said I would find another
way to do it, I did. Even though,
I like knowing there is a way to do
it if I need to in the future thanks.