Shell

[Steen Gellett]

How can I make a program halt, so when shell command is finished my program
continues, but as long as the shell is running it must be on "hold" ??

[Alan Barker]

Re: Shell

steen,
the windows API call
WaitForSingleOb ject
waits for a process before continuing.

not exactly trivial as there is a few structures and other API calls:
CreateProcessA, Closehandle etc.
plenty of examples on the net (google for "WaitForSingleO bject Visual
Basic")

if you cant find anything suitable I'll dig out some code.

HTH
Al.

VB declare:
Public Declare Function WaitForSingleOb ject Lib "Kernel32" (ByVal hProcess
As Long, ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) As Long


"Steen Gellett" <HejMedDig@NoSp am.Net> wrote in message
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> How can I make a program halt, so when shell command is finished my[/color]
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> continues, but as long as the shell is running it must be on "hold" ??
>
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[Steen Gellett]

Re: Shell


"Alan Barker" <AlanDOTBarker@ bcs.org> skrev i en meddelelse
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> steen,
> the windows API call
> WaitForSingleOb ject
> waits for a process before continuing.
>
> not exactly trivial as there is a few structures and other API calls:
> CreateProcessA, Closehandle etc.
> plenty of examples on the net (google for "WaitForSingleO bject Visual
> Basic")
>
> if you cant find anything suitable I'll dig out some code.[/color]


That would be nice.......thx

[Randy Birch]

Re: Shell

See :

http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/faq/waitforsingleobject.htm

http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/faq/waitforsingleobject2.htm

http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/faq/getexitcprocess.htm

The difference between the first two is the first uses CreateProcess to
start the other app, while the second uses VB's Shell method.
--


Randy Birch
MS MVP Visual Basic

http://vbnet.mvps.org/

"Steen Gellett" <HejMedDig@NoSp am.Net> wrote in message
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: How can I make a program halt, so when shell command is finished my
program
: continues, but as long as the shell is running it must be on "hold" ??
:
:

[Steen Gellett]

Re: Shell


"Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis @mvps.org> skrev i en meddelelse
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> See :
> http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/faq/waitforsingleobject.htm
> http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/faq/waitforsingleobject2.htm
> http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/faq/getexitcprocess.htm
>
> The difference between the first two is the first uses CreateProcess to
> start the other app, while the second uses VB's Shell method.
> --[/color]

I took no'2 ............gre at ( very short ) code for a very simple task,
all other code I have seen involved 50-100 lines of code !!!!

[Randy Birch]

Re: Shell

The others allow you to do more, if required.

--


Randy Birch
MS MVP Visual Basic

http://vbnet.mvps.org/

"Steen Gellett" <HejMedDig@NoSp am.Net> wrote in message
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:
: "Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis @mvps.org> skrev i en meddelelse
: news:o4SdnVo_E9 JazFncRVn-ig@rogers.com.. .
: > See :
: > http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/faq/waitforsingleobject.htm
: > http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/faq/waitforsingleobject2.htm
: > http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/faq/getexitcprocess.htm
: >
: > The difference between the first two is the first uses CreateProcess to
: > start the other app, while the second uses VB's Shell method.
: > --
:
: I took no'2 ............gre at ( very short ) code for a very simple task,
: all other code I have seen involved 50-100 lines of code !!!!
:
:

[Steen Gellett]

Re: Shell


"Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis @mvps.org> skrev i en meddelelse
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> The others allow you to do more, if required.
>[/color]
I just needed to "halt" my program........ ..no more, no less........thx
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> --[/color]