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Re: openDialog for ShellEx

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Aug 06, 2002
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On 6 Aug 2002, at 20:07, rswiston at hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know a method for executing another program using the ShellEx (or
> perhaps another method) but executing the program like an openDialog command
> opens a window... in other words, execute the sub-program and execution of the
> main program halts until the sub-program closes?

Have the main program write a file to disk, use flush() on it, then execute the 
sub program, and wait till the sub program has erased the file before doing 
anything else.

Or in windoze, use that api call that tells you if a program by some name 
you specify is being run.

Kat