Calling Shellexec

I am with problem - it would be great to call some external programm from Delphi, wait - till it executes and exits and only then continue work of my Delphi program, how can I do this. I tried ShellExec and ShellExecEx - however - it only calls program and exits - it would be great to registre some handler - which monitors when this called program exits?Any design ideas for such an problem could be very helpful, thanks in advanceKvarnerexpress

I don't know about Delphi and I came across the same problem with I was doing on Visual Basic.What I did was to call a DOS prompt, you may like to try it.

I am with problem - it would be great to call some external programm from Delphi, wait - till it executes and exits and only then continue work of my Delphi program, how can I do this. I tried ShellExec and ShellExecEx - however - it only calls program and exits - it would be great to registre some handler - which monitors when this called program exits?

 

Any design ideas for such an problem could be very helpful, thanks in advance

Kvarnerexpress

 

Shellapi.ShellExecute(application.Handle,'open',pchar('program path'),pchar('parameters'),'',1);

last parameter (1) gets window state!

maximazed, minimized, normal,focused,unfocused and so on...