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how to start another application in my application

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    marmotchen
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    Please tell me... How to start another application in my application.. In my application I need to call another application to open. And I am not use the MFC. Can someone tell me how to open another application. Thanks..

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    • M marmotchen

      Please tell me... How to start another application in my application.. In my application I need to call another application to open. And I am not use the MFC. Can someone tell me how to open another application. Thanks..

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      Jarek G
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      ShellExecute would do the trick!

      ShellExecute(handle, "open","calc.exe", NULL, NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);
      

      /Jarek As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein

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        Please tell me... How to start another application in my application.. In my application I need to call another application to open. And I am not use the MFC. Can someone tell me how to open another application. Thanks..

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        David Crow
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        Also check out CreateProcess().


        "The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)

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