How to Raise Exception from a ShellExecuted Delphi program into the Parent Delphi program

[6volt]

I have a Delphi program, A, which runs another Delphi program, B, using CreateProcess (or ShellExecute)

The return code from CreateProcess merely indicates whether the process was successfully created so it is useless when trying to RAISE ERRORS.

The only way I can think of doing it is to have B create a file with an error message ON Exception.

When A detects that the B process is finished, go and look for the B error file, read the error and then RAISE an error with the appropriate E.message.

HOWEVER, There simply has to be an elegant way to do this since this should be a common occurrence.

Thanks in advance,
Tom

 

[TonHu]

Check out ErrorLevel (yup, that same one you once used in batch files )

 

[6volt]

Hi, Thanks for the ErrorLevel suggestion.

However, I'm not sure exactly how it works:

1) Does it report the Last Error any process incurred? If Yes, you would not know when that error occurred - it could have been from hours or days ago.

2) OR, Does it report the Error of the last process to terminate? If Yes, does this include all system and other processes? Further, there could be many system processes that terminate AFTER the Delphi B program terminated.

Just thinking... When you CreateProcess, you get the Process Handle. Is there any way to see how a particular process terminated?

Thanks
Tom