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Old April 12th, 2004, 09:13 PM
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Running external exe's

Thi is probly an easy noob question for many of you to answer, but can someone tell how you run an external exe from within a delphi program?

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Old April 13th, 2004, 12:42 AM
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Something like this:
Code:
Uses ShellAPI;
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ShellExecute("program.exe", "param1 param2 param3", SW_SHOWNORMAL, 0);

(straight from my head - look up the parameter order and meanings in the WinAPI help.)

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Thx

Hey cheers for the help,

This is the line of code I used in the end, it's a bit bodged as I don't know what the HWnd property is.

Is there any glaring mistakes or possible improvements.

(The code is basically ment to reload itself)

ShellExecute(AllocateHWnd(WndProc), '', PAnsiChar(Application.ExeName), '', '', 0);

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hWnd is the handle to the parent window. You can use "Application.Handle" here.

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