Please tell me what I am doing wrong here.  The declaration for
ShellExecute is in ShellAPI.  After I do syntax check on this unit, I get
the following errors:

Incompatible types: 'Variant' and 'PChar'

and the cursor is on the ShellExecute line, right on the 'P' of
ProgramPath.
I looked at the declaration of ShellExecute in ShellAPI.PAS and it indeed
declared as PChar.  So what am I doing wrong here?

unit Execute;

interface

uses
    ShellAPI, WinTypes, WinProcs;

implementation

procedure DoExecute;
var ProgramPath: PChar;

begin
     ProgramPath := '\windows\notepad.exe';
     ShellExecute(0,NULL,ProgramPath,NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);
end;
end.

--

Joseph I. Ceasar (Yossi)
CLS Computer Solutions

procedure DoExecute;
const
  ProgramPath: PChar = '\windows\notepad.exe';
begin
  ShellExecute(0,NULL,ProgramPath,NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);
end;

        Try this. Good luck!

Leo

Hello,

Use this dude:

     ShellExecute(0,NIL,ProgramPath,NIL,NIL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);

You were using NULL instead of NIL which, in D2, is a variant.

bly