Opening terminal windows from command line app

[malaugh]

I need to command line program that starts other command line applications in their own window. I can use spawn or ecec to run the programs but they run in the main window, not their own. I tried using ShellExecute, but I got a linker error. Does a DOS terminal window have a program name I can call using system or spawn? Any suggestions? Thanks

[Rajkumar R]

malaugh wrote:

but they run in the main window, not their own

use CreateProcess[^]and set CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE in their process creation flag.

[malaugh]

Thanks. FYI I found another method. If you open a cmd window and type "start myprogram.exe", the program will start in another window, so in my program I used: system("start myprogram.exe"); I will your method also and see which works best.

[David Crow]

malaugh wrote:

I tried using ShellExecute, but I got a linker error.

Did you link with Shell32.lib? If so, what was the linker error?

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[malaugh]

My mistake, I must have coded it wrong the first time. I tried it again using: ShellExecute(0,0,"myprogram.exe",0,0,SW_SHOWNORMAL); and it worked. I sued a more complex example last time, must be something to do with the options.