restart application

[peet]

you want your program to shut down and then reload ?

[Sanj]

what do u mean form DOS???

i guess if u have made ur app into and .exe it should be posible!

[Mark Sreeves]

Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim fNum As Integer
Dim fName As String
fName = App.Path & IIf(Right(App.Path, 1) = "\", "", "\") & "restart.bat"
fNum = FreeFile

If Dir(fName) <> "" Then
  Kill fName
End If

Open fName For Output As fNum
Print #fNum, App.Path & "\" & App.EXEName
Print #fNum, , "del " & fName
Close #fNum

Shell fName, vbHide

Unload Me


End Sub

[peet]

Mark Sreeves

it didn't work ... nothing happend it just shut down

[Mark Sreeves]

Originally posted by peet
Mark Sreeves

it didn't work ... nothing happend it just shut down

Did you compile it to an exe?

[peet]

yes compiled it to an exe and executed the exe

[peet]

uh.. I'm a stupid person...

I didn't think about the long filename issue... I placed the project and exe in a folder with long filename...

I moved it to c:\test and everything works like a charm !!!

thanks!

should be aware of the long filename issue though ...

[shragel]

Just Use:

Private Declare Function GetShortPathName Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetShortPathNameA" (ByVal lpszLongPath As String, ByVal lpszShortPath As String, ByVal lBuffer As Long) As Long
 
Public Function GetShortPath(strFileName As String) As String
Dim lngRes As Long, strPath As String
'Create a buffer
strPath = String$(165, 0)
'retrieve the short pathname
lngRes = GetShortPathName(strFileName, strPath, 164)
'remove all unnecessary Chr$$(0)'s
GetShortPath = Left$(strPath, lngRes)
End Function
 
 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim fNum As Integer
Dim fName As String
fName = App.Path & IIf(Right(App.Path, 1) = "\", "", "\") & "restart.bat"
fNum = FreeFile
 
If Dir(fName) <> "" Then
  Kill fName
End If
 
Open fName For Output As fNum
Print #fNum, GetShortPath(App.Path) & "\" & App.EXEName
Print #fNum, , "del " & fName
Close #fNum
 
Shell fName, vbHide
 
Unload Me
 
 
End Sub

[peet]

Great Mark Sreeves and shragel not it works anywhere on my disk

thanks

[eiSecure]

You mis-spelled "now".

heh...always slapping you in the face with a dictionary.

[peet]

damn !

Tat WAS a bad one

not(It works) => it doesn't work ?? so why am I thanking you guys ?

*clunk* <- peet smashes his forhead into the keyboard...

a good thing you are here eiSecure, watching my language

[eiSecure]

Hey, we're tied for posts: 370 each.

Wait, this counts as a post too. 370 - 371

[peet]

that was a cheap one ... this one on the other hand. ...

[eiSecure]

hey! that's cheap too!

[peet]

your gonna get us both kicked out of here

[eiSecure]

not if you do it first!

[eiSecure]

well, i g2g, c ya peet

[peet]

hey thats a new one "g2g" .. Still learning some usefull things

cya ! (god damn I'm cool)

[eiSecure]

yeah! still 2 over ya!

[eiSecure]

by the way, g2g means "got to go"

[eiSecure]

heh...even more posts...

[shragel]

No problem peet