Hi

Please help me, this is urgent.....

I simply want to start another windows application from within my
application, ptreferably destroying my application on the way. I have
absolut no experience with windows API or whatever, only newbie with
delphi.

Please show my an example that i may follow.

Thanks heaps
Jason

faz...@chch.planet.org.nz

Type WinExec in the IDE put your cursor on it and hit CTRL-F1

Sylvain.

In your forms on-close method add this line:

winexec('yourpath\yourwinfile.exe',SW_NORMAL);

or you could add these lines to any other method.

winexec('yourpath\yourwinfile.exe',SW_NORMAL);
close

in the first example, just before you program closes, it starts
the other windows program.

in the second example, your other windoes program starts then the
close method is called.

(don't do both, you with then have two instances of the other windows
program.)

Hope this helps,

Ash

Note: the preferred method of starting another application is the
createprocess function.

In article <01bbaf59$b3ac8a40$07423...@fazaks.chch.planet.org.nz>,
faz...@chch.planet.org.nz says...

--
Grim.
"I don't think you understand, I am The Grim Reaper."

On 1 Oct 1996 05:31:23 GMT, "Jason Fazackerley"

procedure TForm1.Button1Click (Sender : Self);
begin
  WinExec ('NOTEPAD.EXE', SW_SHOW);
  Close;
end;

hope this helps
Meikel Weber
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