Process Control

[Steve Thresher]

I have a program that maintains a list of files. The operator is allowed to open these files which I do by calling ShellExecute(). What I would like to know is how to tell if the program started by ShellExecute() is still running when my program terminates. Is this possible? Thanks for any information you can provide. Steve.

[James Pullicino]

Try using ShellExecuteEx instead and collect the hProcess member of the returned SHELLEXECUTEINFO structure. What to do with the hProccess is another story, maybe someone else can help? Alternatevly use CreateProcess, which gives more control. (2b || !2b)

[tanin]

Hey. use ShellExecuteEx api and in it's parameter structure check the hProcess data member after u launch your process, it should contain a handle to your process, after that you can do some stuff with the handle ussing api, depending on what you want. :-D