Launching external appz

[laiason5]

how would i launch an external app(in my case Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect) from within my application? how could i set it up to load a text file upon startup?
thanks
L5

[Yogen M]

Use CreateProcess.
pass "fullPath\winword.exe yourfile.txt" as a parameter (I think it's cmdline)
and pass NULL as parameter for appname.

[laiason5]

thanks for the post, but one question...
in VC++ 6 i call teh global create Process like this:

::CreateProcess(...);



now, when i do that, it wants about 20 different things in the parenthesis. what do i put for them?
thanks,
L5

[Gordito Supreme]

If you don't need to WaitforObject() try ShellExecute() its easier to work with than CreateProcess.

Gordito

[Yogen M]

Look for online help.
The only important ones are appname and cmdline. You can pass null to appname.
in cmd line "fullpath\app.exe param1 param2".
2 more parameters are si and pi, declare the structures as shown in help and init them as:

memset(&si, 0, sizeof(si));
si.cbSize = sizeof(si);
memset(&pi, 0, sizeof(pi));
pi.cbSize = sizeof(pi);




All other params are null.