Calling External Programs with C++ code

[Jabugalu]

I was wondering if anyone could help me with the code nessecary to call
external
windows pgorams from a terminal c++ program. I dont know the code to do this.
I would only need to run the external program not interact with it. Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

[jonnin]

system("c:\...\whatever.exe");
or
lookup spawn*.*, shellexecute*(win32), etc for more powerful commands.



"Jabugalu" <activematrix@netzero.net> wrote:
>
>I was wondering if anyone could help me with the code nessecary to call
>external
>windows pgorams from a terminal c++ program. I dont know the code to do
this.
> I would only need to run the external program not interact with it. Any
>help would be greatly appreciated.

[Christer Brännström]

The prefered way to create another process in win32 should be something like
this. It gives the developer more control, but then again it is more complicated.

PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
STARTUPINFO si;
memset(&si, 0, sizeof(si));
si.cb = sizeof(si);

if (CreateProcess(0, "C:\KEFFO\kickass.exe", 0, 0, FALSE,
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, 0, 0,
&si, &pi)) {
// ERROR
}
WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE);
CloseHandle(pi.hThread);
CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);



"jonnin" <jonnin@vol.com> wrote:
>
>system("c:\...\whatever.exe");
>or
>lookup spawn*.*, shellexecute*(win32), etc for more powerful commands.
>
>
>
>"Jabugalu" <activematrix@netzero.net> wrote:
>>
>>I was wondering if anyone could help me with the code nessecary to call
>>external
>>windows pgorams from a terminal c++ program. I dont know the code to do
>this.
>> I would only need to run the external program not interact with it. Any
>>help would be greatly appreciated.
>