Re: QBASIC Program via wscript.shell giving error

S Bans,

That's right,
but the shell gave me problems with accessing the com port !
at least that was what I've got on a XP sp2
W98se was on that point "better"

My GWBasic.exe has an option to timeout.
So it won't stay on top of the app. it just shut down
after a certain time of inactivity.
so I didn't look any further to solve this.

What do you mean by other programs are loosing focus ?
Your foxpro app will sure loose focus because that app
should wait for the dos app to close.

Other then that all apps. should run fine I presume....

regards
christophe

ps. is it a barcode reader you try to get data from ?

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Christophe,

"Run" is working fine with me also, however the Black DOS window removes
focus from other programs and we can not do something else if some
repetitive
Qbasic program is running. Shell should solve that problem.

Regards

S Bans


"christophe" wrote:

euh,

It wasn't probably very clear in my previous answer but
Run works just fine.

Although I'm willing to retry the Shell.
It looks more fancy ....

regards
christophe

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Christophe,

Let's hope some senior member provides guidance which solves it for
both
of
us.

Regards

S Bans

"christophe" wrote:

S Bans,

I'm also running a Dos exe (GWBasic)
I also couldn't get it running with the Shell.run.
I just do : Run yourexe yourpar1 yourpar2

regards
christophe

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Hello Seniors,

I have been running some DOS programs via wscript.shell like:

QQwState = 7 &&7&& Run the Dos Command in an Inactive and
Minimised
Window
QQwait = 1 && 0 = NoWait, 1 = Wait
lo_Shell = createobject("wscript.shell")
lc_runRAS = 'rasdial "Con_name" "user" "pw"'
lo_Shell.Run(lc_runRAS,QQwState,QQwait)

However the attempt to run a QBASIC program as follows is giving
errors:

QQwState = 7 &&7&& Run the Dos Command in an Inactive and
Minimised
Window
QQwait = 1 && 0 = NoWait, 1 = Wait
lo_Shell = createobject("wscript.shell")
lc_runQBASIC = 'QBASIC/run C:\TEST\PROGRAM1.BAS'
lo_Shell.run(lc_runQBASIC,QQwState,QQwait)

I understnad I could be getting errors because of the multiple
calls
to
RUN,
however I do not know how to solve this problem.

I am looking forward to your guidance for solving this problem.

Regards

S Bans









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