help with Shellexecute

Question

hiyaz
i new to this guys and was told to post this here,i'm trying to get shellexecute to run something, just say i wanted to run/open a old text document
"C:\test.txt"
i would use this
ShellExecute(handle, open,"C:\test.txt", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
or
ShellExecute(handle, open,"C:\test.exe", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

? correct?
if so it doesn't work.... it complains about the handle part... i'm new to this command so dont know what your meant to put in "handle"
Any help would be great.
thx
Steve

Answer 1

Just use NULL as a window handle if you have non:
ShellExecute(NULL, "open","C:\test.txt", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Answer 2

Hi All,

 

I am using ShellExecuteW() in VB6.0. Following is my call:

IR = ShellExecuteW(0, StrPtr("open"), StrPtr("C:\Rsync1\Redirect.exe"), StrPtr(sParameters), StrPtr(""), 0)

 

But I want to wait for the application till the Redirect.exe finshes its work.

Can anybody help me please?

Regards,

Kamal...