Gepending on whether the started application will stop itself (and yours has to wait for it) or your application should stop it after a certain of time, you should either use ShellExecuteEx and wait for the application to finish (checking for "STILL_ACTIVE" with "GetExitCodeProcess") or start the application using "CreateProcess" and just kill that process when the time is right.
Greetz, Peter. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Francisco Javier Hernandez Segura Verzonden: woensdag 12 maart 2008 16:08 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: [delphi-en] Re: Windows processes What i am trying to do is to open automatically some files each specific time. I am opening such files with Shellexecute instruction as is showed next: var vpchar : arrar [0..800] of char; begin StrPcopy(vpchar, table1filename.value); Shellexecute(application.handle, 'open', vpchar, nil, nil, SW_NORMAL) ..... ..... end; When a file is opened, after certain time it should be closed and then another file should be opened. Thank you !
