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Honza
September 25th, 1999, 01:40 PM
How to start new process(like Notepad) in my MFC based project?

Thanks, Honza

Thomas Ascher
September 27th, 1999, 02:16 AM
Hi, try this:

PROCESS_INFORMATION info;
STARTUPINFO startup;
CString strExePath = "notepad.exe";

memset(&startup, 0, sizeof(startup));
startup.cb = sizeof(startup);

if(CreateProcess(NULL, strExePath, NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &startup, &info))
{
// notepad started
}