16bit applications in 32bit windows enviroment

[Pistol34]

I am back again with the same old problems. I have used Shell() and Createprocess() hoping to gain some control over Lotus 123 R5W. Don't laugh it's a legacy thing. I can not seem to get the waitforsingleobject() function to work. I pass in a valid handle and my application doesn't wait. It just keeps processing code. I have resorted to loops. I am reaching for any thing. Help!

I bet it's because Lotus is a 16 bit app. Do they pass the same info back to windows?

Thanks

 

[Karl Blessing]

There is a CreateProcess for both 16 and 32 bit, i am not sure what each is called, also I am uncertain that some legacy 16bit applications sends messages to the system, since in the 16bit days, the Application had complete access of the system, and didnt act as a multitask with the OS , while the application had focus (which is why 16bit appz can easily lock up 32bit OSes nowdays)
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[MikeLacey]

have you had a look at the control console faq in th vb gen forum?
Mike
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