Close a Shell executable

[jlaverge]

Hello,

I executed a .exe file from excel using the Shell() function
however, this program doesn't close on ending its calculations, so i want to close it from excel
Anyone an idea how to do this?

thank you in advance
jelle

[Dököll]

Is this it?

Not my code but try it, will stop back to see where you. Or you can simply hang on, our experts will you and perhaps will come aid.

[CODE=VB]

Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click( )
'open and write to bat file
Open "c:\test.ba t" For Output As #1
Print #1, "dir c:\ >c:\test.txt"
Close #1
'create the file (test.txt) for output to be sent to
Open "c:\test.tx t" For Output As #1
Close #1
'now shell to the bat file and then kill it
Shell "c:\test.ba t", vbNormalFocus
Kill "c:\test.ba t"
End Sub

[/CODE]

[jg007]

I have had a look but cannot work out how to get a handle to the program but I have the code below which uses an imported dll to close a window based on the title, at the moment it opens notepad and then closes it when you click 'OK'

    Option Explicit

   Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As Any, ByVal lpWindowName As Any) As Long
   Private Declare Function PostMessage Lib "user32" Alias "PostMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
   Private Const WM_QUIT = &H12
   
   Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
   Shell ("Notepad.exe")
   MsgBox ("Click 'OK' to close notepad")
    Dim sTitle As String
     Dim iHwnd As Long
     Dim ihTask As Long
     Dim iReturn As Long
     sTitle = "Untitled - Notepad"
     iHwnd = FindWindow(0&, sTitle)
     iReturn = PostMessage(iHwnd, WM_QUIT, 0&, 0&)
     MsgBox "Notepad has been closed down"
  End Sub