Calling an application using VC

[trinh nguyen]

Hi everyone, I have a simple question: How to call an application using VC? Thank you in advance.

[S Douglas]

trinh.nguyen wrote:

How to call an application using VC?

See ShellExecute()[^] Or CreateProcess()[^]

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I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

[Mushtaque Nizamani]

There are many APIs for calling an application, the simplest one is WinExec(..), and other is CreateProcess which is more detialed. Regards, Mushq

[Super Hornet]

Which API is better for calling another application

[Mushtaque Nizamani]

CreateProcess(...) is more better, since you can apply wait on the process created by this API, and also can get the error after execution of your application, but it is slight slower than winexec(..).

[Hamid Taebi]

From the MSDN CreateProcess: This function is used to run a new program. It creates a new process and its primary thread. The new process executes the specified executable file. ---------------------- ShellExecute : Performs an operation on a specified file.

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WhiteSky

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[trinh nguyen]

Thank you for your replies. Very useful, I forgot how to call an application using VC and now I get it. Thank you. TRINH.NGUYEN

[Hamid Taebi]

I glad you find it:)

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WhiteSky

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[Sam Hobbs]

Win32-based applications should use the CreateProcess function. You should at least say something such as that and that it is important to read the documentation.

[Sam Hobbs]

ShellExecuteEx also provides the ability to wait on the process.

[Mushtaque Nizamani]

Sam Hobbs wrote:

You should at least say something such as that and that it is important to read the documentation.

but there are 100s of answers look like mine,then why are you telling me only.

[Sam Hobbs]

I only saw yours.

[Hamid Taebi]

You can use also of Winexec or ShellExecute

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WhiteSky

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