Glenn Linderman wrote:
Would it not be possible to just use
system qq{start whatever_command};
instead of ShellExecute? What is the advantage of ShellExecute?
That seems to work fine on my Win98 system. It takes a bit longer to
return control to the GUI (but only just noticable), and the return
values are less well defined (I can't find any info in the quick search
I've done). I'll put that in, and remove the dependancy on
ShellExecute, unless anyone know why ShellExecute might be preferable.
I've only tried this on W98 - does the fact that start in w2k onwards is
implelented as a shell builtin command cause any problems? The only
other problem I can think of is if the user has any other program called
start.exe/bat/etc. in their path in front of the windows one.
Thanks Glenn.
Rob.
