RUN EXECUTABLE WITH AN EXECUTABLE 1

[anyhandle]

IS IT POSSIBLE TO RUN AN EXECUTABLE USING ANOTHER EXECUTABLE? IF SO CAN SOMEONE GET ME STARTED? HEADER FILE? HOW CAN THE OUTER EXECUTABLE SEE WHERE I AM WITHIN THE (RUN /N EXECUTABLE) INNER EXECUTABLE?

 

[jimstarr]

I'm not sure what you mean by "seeing where you are" in the inner executable, but there's no problem with one executable calling another.

DO myexecutable.exe

Jim

 

[anyhandle]

WHAT I MEAN IS CAN AN OUTER EXECUTABLE RUN AND MAKE SELECTIONS OF AN EXECUTABLE THAT IT 'KICKS' OFF. CAN I WRITE AN EXECUTABLE THAT LITERALLY OPERATES ANOTHER EXECUTABLE. RIGHT NOW I'M AWARE THAT IT CAN RUN IT (I.E. RUN /N APPLICATION.EXE

BUT I WANT THIS PROGRAM TO MAKE SELECTIONS WITHIN THE APPLICATION.EXE - PERHAPS USING MOUSE CLICK ROW,COLUMN ETC.

 

[jimoo]

anyhandle

I am not following you. It sounds like Jim's example will do that. There must be something I am misunderstanding.



Jim Osieczonek
Delta Business Group, LLC

http://www.deltabg.com

 

[anyhandle]

I'm able to have one exe call another. For example:

run /N myapp.exe

*but it won't do the following code until myapp.exe is done *running and closed. I want to run myapp.exe and make *screen selections of myapp.exe using the exe that I called *myapp.exe with.

if screen_name="about"
mouse click row, column && if this worked, it would
&& close the about screen in myapp.exe and go onto the
&& next screen
endif

 

[jimstarr]

The calling program will not resume execution until the called program ends and RETURNs control back to it.

Jim