Re: Does anyone know how to write VB?

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From: Bonj (a_at_b.com)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:29:55 +0100

Ignore him, he's a miserable bugger.

"Eric" <email@anon.com> wrote in message
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> "Larry Serflaten" <serflaten@usinternet.com> wrote in message
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> > "Eric" <email@anon.com> wrote
> > > I wrote a message here last week,
> >
> > You mean last Friday.
> >
> > > and while it seems like most posts are
> > > getting a response, mine did not.
> >
> > This is not a paid service, there is no expectation of gaurenteed
service
> level.
> > Everyone here is a volunteer. Many volunteer less over the weekend.
> >
> > > Does no one know, or is it just not possible?
> >
> > You had all weekend to research the problem, to look for answers. What
> > did you come up with?
> >
> >
> > >We have a VB program that calls a process and keeps running. It
> > > needs to execute a second process after the first process finishes.
How
> do
> > > we tell it to wait on that line until the process finishes??
> >
> > Did you know this type of question comes up quite often? Posters are
> > supposed to do a little research on their own, before posting questions.
> > There is no reason to answer the same questions over and over when
> > there is a searchable archive of all of the questions and their answers,
> > readily available.
> >
>
> I never said there was a guaranteed service level. I apologize if I gave
> that impression. I just happened to notice that most posts after mine got
a
> response while my original post did not. I was just wondering if it was
> because no one on here had any knowledge on this matter or if it's just
not
> possible.
>
> I did look through this forum and could not find any related messages, so
> no. I was not aware this "type of question comes up quite often". I
don't
> know much about VB. I normally write Business BASIC programs. I looked
at
> the help provided by VB and didn't see anything on it. I'm not really
sure
> where to begin to research it on my own since I don't know a lot about the
> language. My coworker who wrote the program did research the problem and
I
> mentioned the two solutions she came up with. I hadn't tried google. I
did
> look at Microsoft's site and didn't see anything related to it. I may
have
> just been looking in the wrong place since I'm no VB expert.
>
>
> > Just to get you familiar with the process, I am going to tell you what
to
> > do. Go over to www.google.com, click on groups, and type in the three
> > words: Shell And Wait then click on the button.
> >
> > There are over 150,000 hits for that combination, many of them having
> > answers about waiting for a process to finish. But you may not know
> > that is a common problem, or what word to type in, so try it again,
> > and type in keywords that you do know, like 'print to file', 'wait for
> > printer' or 'wait Excel print', any of those you could have easily
> > thought of yourself. If that doesn't get it, then look for answers
> > for questions that have to do with the print spooler, or print queue.
> >
> > Many people will answer a post only when they have experience in
> > the area of interest. When you ask a question about an odd
> > combination of events, or applications, you can expect there will
> > be less chance your question will be read by someone with experience
> > in that area.
> >
> > Also, this is a volunteer, peer to peer group. If you come in with
> > an attitude like this last post shows, don't expect anybody will even
> > want to help. If you don't get an answer the very first time, just
calmly
> > mention you are making a repost of an earlier message, and give the
> > subject line of that message and post the deatils again. No one
monitors
> > this group 24/7, you have to expect you may have to wait a day or more
> > for an answer, and even longer over the weekend.
> >
> > LFS
> >
>
> Again, I apoligize if my repost showed an "attitude". I was not trying to
> offend anyone or suggest as some have that Microsoft monitors this group
and
> is required to answer everyone on here seeking help. I thought this would
> be a simple solution and was wondering if anyone knew offhand or if it
can't
> be done. In Business BASIC which I normally work with, if we execute an
> external process, it can check with the operating system to get a return
> code back saying that process is done. It normally stops on the external
> call and waits for it to finish, unless the call ends with &, then it
> continues processing.
>
> I do appreciate the responses here and I think we may find a workaround
from
> that. I gather it is not possible to tell VB to wait for the process, so
I
> think the ugly workaround is this. Since the process we want to execute
> after the external file is done, is simply to rename the output file, we
> could just 1) rename it 2) check for file exist on original file 3) if
> exists, loop back to rename again.
> I believe that can be done, though I'm not sure the exact syntax offhand.
I
> think we can figure it out. Thanks.
>
>

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