How do I Initiate MS Windows Shutdown With PB Script 1

[Tentacle]

Hi all. I’m using PB 6.5 at the moment and have an application I wrote that need to shutdown Microsoft windows when I click the close button on my application. Does anyone know how to have windows shutdown automatically without asking the user whether they want to or not after clicking a button in my PB app. I suppose I could always call an .exe file that does that from PowerBuilder but hoped there would be some other direct way of doing this. Thanx in advance to anyone who can assist.

PS: The app is running on windows 95 and XP respectively.

Tentacle

 

[BetterLateThanNever]

Hi,

Have a look at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/exitwindows.asp

You'll need to code an external function declaration for this:

Function boolean ExitWindowsEx (Long dwOptions, Long dwReserved) Library "user32" Alias For "ExitWindowsEx" (from thread144-505324)

The variable dwReserved is used in XP (see the link). You may find that you are better off using the

InitiateSystemShutdown

or

InitiateSystemShutdownEx

since ExitWindowsEx can succeed even if some other process subsequently stops the shutdown.

Cheers.