Closing an Application in VB

[RSH]

The following code works very nicely to activate an application but now how does one get rid of it. Alt F4 works only from the keys not from code.


Private Sub Command1_Click()
RetVal = Shell("C:\Program Files\HomeConnect\VidCap.exe", 1)
End Sub
Thanks RSH

 

[sunaj]

Hi,

You can send a 'close request' to the program using
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Const NILL = 0&
Const WM_SYSCOMMAND = &H112
Const SC_CLOSE = &HF060&
Handle = SendMessage(Handle, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_CLOSE, NILL)
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That should work with a windows program (if it is responding), however if you run a command line program you can't close it before its finished (shorth of killing the process). Sunaj
'The gap between theory and practice is not as wide in theory as it is in practice'

 

[RSH]

Thanks for the input. Ill give it a try.
73 RSH