BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Open cmd.exe from shortcut, execute command          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> C++ Builder (Native API) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message vortic Guest Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:02 am    Post subject: Open cmd.exe from shortcut, execute command I have a VCL form application, and on a button onClick Event, I want to open a shortcut (CmdShortcut) pointing to cmd.exe, and run some command window application (SomeApp.exe) within the command window. I have no idea how to do this because I can't seem to use the online help very effectively. I can't even figure out how to execute any app or get a command line. I'm using Turbo C++ Explorer on XP SP2. Any help appreciated. p.s. Should have I posted this to cppbuilder.language.cpp ?? Back to top Jonathan Benedicto Guest Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:53 am    Post subject: Re: Open cmd.exe from shortcut, execute command vortic wrote: Quote: I have a VCL form application, and on a button onClick Event, I want to open a shortcut (CmdShortcut) pointing to cmd.exe, and run some command window application (SomeApp.exe) within the command window. I have no idea how to do this because I can't seem to use the online help very effectively. I can't even figure out how to execute any app or get a command line. You can either use ShellExecute or CreateProcess. Eg: ShellExecute( NULL, "open", "myapp.exe", "", NULL, SW_SHOWDEFAULT ); Quote: p.s. Should have I posted this to cppbuilder.language.cpp ?? No, this is the correct group. HTH Jonathan Back to top vortic Guest Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:59 am    Post subject: Re: Open cmd.exe from shortcut, execute command "Jonathan Benedicto" <invalid (AT) nobody (DOT) com> wrote in message news:45316a45$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: vortic wrote: I have a VCL form application, and on a button onClick Event, I want to open a shortcut (CmdShortcut) pointing to cmd.exe, and run some command window application (SomeApp.exe) within the command window. I have no idea how to do this because I can't seem to use the online help very effectively. I can't even figure out how to execute any app or get a command line. You can either use ShellExecute or CreateProcess. Excellent. I open Cmd.exe instead of the app directly, as I like to run it through a command window because the app auto closes and I like to look at the output. I could not figure out how to get ShellExecute to open a shortcut, but that is ok. Thanks, vortic Back to top Michel Leunen Guest Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Open cmd.exe from shortcut, execute command vortic wrote: Quote: I could not figure out how to get ShellExecute to open a shortcut, but that is ok. A shortcut is like other files and has an .lnk extension. Just do ShellExecute( NULL, "open", "your_link.lnk", "", NULL, SW_SHOWDEFAULT ); Michel -- ---------------------------------------- Michel Leunen mailto: see my homepage. C++Builder, BCC5.5.1 Web site: http://www.leunen.com/ ---------------------------------------- Back to top Remy Lebeau (TeamB) Guest Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Open cmd.exe from shortcut, execute command "vortic" <vortic (AT) users (DOT) sourceforge.net> wrote in message news:4531423c$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: I have a VCL form application, and on a button onClick Event, I want to open a shortcut (CmdShortcut) pointing to cmd.exe You do not need to execute the shortcut. You can execute cmd.exe itself directly. Use the CreateProcess() function for that. Quote: and run some command window application (SomeApp.exe) within the command window. Then you do not need to run cmd.exe at all. You can run SomeApp.exe directly instead. If it is a console application, then it will show the console window automatically. Gambit Back to top Remy Lebeau (TeamB) Guest Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Open cmd.exe from shortcut, execute command "vortic" <vortic (AT) users (DOT) sourceforge.net> wrote in message news:453187e4$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: I open Cmd.exe instead of the app directly, as I like to run it through a command window because the app auto closes and I like to look at the output. If you use CreateProcess() to run the console application directly, you can capture the output and display it in your own program. CreateProcess() allows you to assign your own handles for STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR. So your program could use CreatePipe() to create handles for STDOUT and STDERR, and then use ReadFile() to receive any data the console application outputs. Gambit Back to top vortic Guest Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:10 am    Post subject: Re: Open cmd.exe from shortcut, execute command "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam (AT) no (DOT) spam.com> wrote in message > Quote: "vortic" >> I open Cmd.exe instead of the app directly, as I like to run it through a command window because the app auto closes and I like to look at the output. If you use CreateProcess() to run the console application directly, you can capture the output and display it in your own program. CreateProcess() allows you to assign your own handles for STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR. So your program could use CreatePipe() to create handles for STDOUT and STDERR, and then use ReadFile() to receive any data the console application outputs. Perfect. This is exactly what I really want anyway. I'll give this a shot. 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