Call WinAPI?

[Scott Rossi]

I have a MetaCard stack that launches a client's installer 
(InstallShield).  The client wants to me to determine if I can hide the 
decompress progressbar of their installer using my MetaCard stack.  I 
was asked by the programmer of the client to see if I can get MetaCard 
to call WinAPI to launch our setup and use Shell32.ShellExecute with 
SW_SHOWMINIMIZED to hide the progress bar.

Anyone know if the above can be translated into a command/script that I 
can issue from MC?

Thanks  Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director, Tactile Media
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Re: Call WinAPI?

[Dar Scott]

On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 07:24 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

 If they don't have a command line argument, you will need to have 
 some other
 app (such as a small VB app) do this for you (unless someone else 
 knows how
 to do this).

Try the shell command start.  I use it for console apps and it 
might work for GUIs.  I'm not sure what Windows has that, though.  
My W2K does.

Dar Scott

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Re: Call WinAPI?

[Phil Davis]

I opened a DOS window on my Win98SE machine and got this info about 'start'. Looks 
like it should indeed be able to launch an app minimized.

= beginning 

Microsoft(R) Windows 98
   (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.

C:\WINDOWSstart /?
Runs a Windows program or an MS-DOS program.

START [options] program [arg...]
START [options] document.ext

/m[inimized] Run the new program minimized (in the background).
/max[imized] Run the new program maximized (in the foreground).
/r[estored]  Run the new program restored (in the foreground). [default]
/w[ait]  Does not return until the other program exits.

C:\WINDOWS

=== end =

Phil

- Original Message - 
From: Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Call WinAPI?


 
 On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 07:24 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
 
  If they don't have a command line argument, you will need to have 
  some other
  app (such as a small VB app) do this for you (unless someone else 
  knows how
  to do this).
 
 Try the shell command start.  I use it for console apps and it 
 might work for GUIs.  I'm not sure what Windows has that, though.  
 My W2K does.
 
 Dar Scott
 
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