OpenEuphoria

1. ShellExecuteEx stops working

• Posted by sergelli Oct 26, 2013
• 1361 views

I have a "edit.exe" that has the following lines

ShowWindow (MAIN, SW_MINIMIZE) -- hiding editor 
err_msg = ShellExecuteEx ("open","c:\\euphoria\\bin\\exwc.exe c:\\euPgm\\new.EXW", 0, 0, SW_NORMAL, 0) 
ShowWindow (MAIN, SW_RESTORE) -- restores editor 

The "new.EXW" program runs normally, but when closing it, there are occasions that "edit.exe" abort, without running the line showWndow(...).
I can not check the value of "err_msg" because "edit.exe" ends before at this point.

This problem occurs with Eu311
With EU4 and "euiw.exe",this problem does not occur, but would not want to use it

Does anyone have any idea what might be happening?

3. Re: ShellExecuteEx stops working

• Posted by petelomax Oct 26, 2013
• 1350 views

My guess would be you are getting a type check on err_msg. Try changing to to object?

5. Re: ShellExecuteEx stops working

• Posted by andi49 Oct 26, 2013
• 1318 views

-- without type_check  

Try to run your program under the Watcom Debugger wdw.exe
this may give you a hint.

Andreas