OpenEuphoria

Help: Start and End programs

• Posted by rolf.schroeder at desy.de May 28, 2003
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Hi everyone,

I need some 'push' to solve the following (Win32) problem:

The following situation: I have two (independent from each other)
running programs, i.e., 'Iraq.exe' and 'Iran.exe', these programs
don't need any special lib like win32.lib, only the standard window is
used by puts()and printf() (and some other functions, which have
nothing to do with windowing).
A third program, i.e., 'Texan.exe', checks time by time if 'Iraq' and
'Iran' are still creating and writing files. In case 'Texan' concludes
that Iraq or Iran don't function anymore properly (i.e. due to network
failure), Texan should end the corresponding program and start it
again.

I found two functions which should do the job, the first is
'ShellExecute()' from 'user32.dll':

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shellexecute.asp

and the second is 'TerminateProcess()' from 'kernel32.dll':

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/terminateprocess.asp

But I have problems to write the declarations for the Euphoria program
'Texan' in the correct way. If the two above functions are the right
selections for this purpose, could someone be so kind and show me
how the declarations in Euphoria looks like?

Thanks, and have a nice day, Rolf