Opening a new instance (Shell) of Extra from Access

[CautionMP]

Du2good,
[tt]Shell("C:\Program Files\E!PC\extra.exe C:\Program Files\e!pc\SESSIONS\somesession.EDP")[/tt]
Where the first path is the executable Extra and the second path is a valid session (*.edp)

The usage in a funtion or sub would be

Dim dblExtra as Double
dblExtra = Shell("C:\Program Files\E!PC\extra.exe C:\Program Files\e!pc\SESSIONS\S0400-1.EDP")

The assignment to [tt]dblExtra[/tt] will allow two things:[ol][li]Code execution stops until Extra is up and running[/li][li]You can check the value of dblExtra to see if you had sucess before continuing (see Shell() in help for return values)[/li][/ol]

Hope this helps,
CMP

Instant programmer, just add coffee.

 

[Du2good]

Thanks CMP

That appears to be pretty straitforward.
I think I'll be able to use that easily.

Thank you
dbw