Launching App

20 Oct 2005 8:41 PM

bob

I have a VB6 app that will need to luanch a seperate app that will need some
user interaction. I want the app to behave like a dialog, forcing the user
to interact with it before going to back to the main app. How can I do
this?

Thanks

21 Oct 2005 8:06 AM

J French

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:41:12 -0600, "bob" <bo***@bob.com> wrote:

>I have a VB6 app that will need to luanch a seperate app that will need some
>user interaction. I want the app to behave like a dialog, forcing the user
>to interact with it before going to back to the main app. How can I do
>this?

Perhaps a bit more information ?

Is the separate App your own or is it from a 3rd party ?

21 Oct 2005 2:32 PM

bob

Sorry, the app is going to be my own. It is going to be written in C# due
to the functionality I need (reflection).

Thanks

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"J French" <erew***@nowhere.uk> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:41:12 -0600, "bob" <bo***@bob.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a VB6 app that will need to luanch a seperate app that will need
>>some
>>user interaction. I want the app to behave like a dialog, forcing the
>>user
>>to interact with it before going to back to the main app. How can I do
>>this?
>
> Perhaps a bit more information ?
>
> Is the separate App your own or is it from a 3rd party ?
>
>

21 Oct 2005 4:44 PM

J French

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:32:07 -0600, "bob" <bo***@bob.com> wrote:

>Sorry, the app is going to be my own. It is going to be written in C# due
>to the functionality I need (reflection).

Reluctantly: Look at SendMessage

21 Oct 2005 5:07 PM

Someone

How To Use a 32-Bit Application to Determine When a Shelled Process Ends
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;129796

You don't have to use INFINITE when waiting for WaitForSingleObject to
return as the article shows. You can put it in a Timer and test it with a
value of 0 so it returns immediately if you want to do other things.

You could use SetParent API function, but I have never used it this way and
set "Me.Enabled = False", this simulates that your form as a parent to a
modal form. Make sure that you set it back to True and undo what SetParent
did if the application hasn't finished yet.

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>I have a VB6 app that will need to luanch a seperate app that will need
>some user interaction. I want the app to behave like a dialog, forcing the
>user to interact with it before going to back to the main app. How can I
>do this?
>
> Thanks
>

22 Oct 2005 7:47 AM

J French

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:07:02 -0400, "Someone" <nob***@cox.net> wrote:

>How To Use a 32-Bit Application to Determine When a Shelled Process Ends
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;129796
>
>You don't have to use INFINITE when waiting for WaitForSingleObject to
>return as the article shows. You can put it in a Timer and test it with a
>value of 0 so it returns immediately if you want to do other things.
>
>You could use SetParent API function, but I have never used it this way and
>set "Me.Enabled = False", this simulates that your form as a parent to a
>modal form. Make sure that you set it back to True and undo what SetParent
>did if the application hasn't finished yet.

Another method is to set up a Timer and simply use it as a Message
Pump (nothing in the On_Timer )

Timer1.Interval = 500
Timer1.Enabled = True
While SomeCondition
       WaitMessage
       DoEvents
       DoSomeTest
Wend

It makes the code a little easier to follow
BTW the Timer pumps a message so that in this case WaitMessage returns
at least every 500 ms