Please Help - Trying to launch a program within VB...

I am writing an application that should launch an instance of another windows application, say Microsoft WORD. I have been able to launch the program from my code outside of the application, but I am trying to launch it within the application itself... in a control of some sort. Is this possible?? If it is, can someone help??

Thanks,
Ron

'this sample will launch notepad.exe and wait until user closes it to continue execution

Function MyFunc()
Dim myObject As Object
Dim RetVal As Variant

Set myObject = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
RetVal = myObject.Run("c:\windows\notepad.exe", 1, True)
MsgBox "Notepad is closed"

End Function


'TRue - wait until proc is over
'False don't wait

Iouri Boutchkine
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Can this parameter be added for other applications as well? I am actually trying to launch another Windows application. What extactly is the WScript.shell??

You can use it for any window application. WSShell is a window script host object. If you need you can find info in Microsoft knowledgebase

Iouri Boutchkine
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