Problems with 'Shell'

[Peter Brown]

I have a small programme used as a launch for a number of other programmes. Mostly it works fine starting the programmes with
Shell "c:\progpath\progname.exe", 1
But one programme fails to start properly.
It starts OK from 'Start programmes ..', from Windows Explorer and from the DOS prompt.
I have checked starting using
retval = Shell("c:\progpath\progname.exe", 1)
if retval=0 etc
no obvious problem.

Anyone any ideas please

Peter Brown

[MicahCarrick]

I'd look into using the ShellExcecute API.

Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

Public Const SW_HIDE = 0
Public Const SW_MAX = 10
Public Const SW_MAXIMIZE = 3
Public Const SW_MINIMIZE = 6
Public Const SW_NORMAL = 1
Public Const SW_SHOW = 5
Public Const SW_SHOWDEFAULT = 10
Public Const SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3
Public Const SW_SHOWMINIMIZED = 2
Public Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1

Dim lResult as long
lResult = ShellExecute(hwnd, "Open", "C:\Program Files\MyProg\Program.exe", 0&,0&, SW_SHOWNORMAL)

I don't know why, But I always find that to work more consitantly than just shell.


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