Starting a Progress application with ShellExecute

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de Muur - 23 Jun 2005 14:31 GMT

I have a problem starting a Progress application with the ShellExecute function

I have defined the ShellExecute function and this is my sourcecode to
execute it:

retval = ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, "open", strApplication, "", "", 3)

strApplication is a bat file with two statements:
cd g:\application\dlc\
g:\application\dlc\application.exe -basekey ini

The application start with a MS-error: Progress Prowin32 has encountered a
problem and needs to close. We are sorry .....

When I start the bat file from the command-line there is no problem at all
and when I remove the parameters -basekey and ini there is no error but the
program does'nt react at all.

Who has experience with Progress an VB?

Thank you in advance
Leiden, The Netherlands

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Karl E. Peterson - 23 Jun 2005 22:44 GMT

> I have a problem starting a Progress application with the
> ShellExecute function
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>
> Who has experience with Progress an VB?

Not I! But a wild guess might be for you to add another line to the batch file, to
make the G: drive current?

Or, rearrange everything by caching the current drive/directory, changing to the
desired ones using ChDrive and ChDir, then spawning the EXE directly. That avoids
the need for the batch file altogether, right?

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Starting a Progress application with ShellExecute