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call to system() under Windows [message #13275]

Fri, 28 December 2007 10:47

forlano
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Registered: March 2006
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Hello,

from my program under Windows (a gui) I call an external program made itself with a gui (but it could be a console application), say childgui.exe by the command:

system ("childgui.exe");

I observe that the child process is became like a modal dialog and prevent me to use in the meanwhile the parent program. Only when I close childgui.exe the control come back to the main program.
I would like to know if there is a way under Windows to let the child process to operate indipendently of the main exe without to stop it. (for some reason I cannot avoid the use of system() because the child process is a sort of external plugin that I do not know in advance, but perhaps there is a better way to run it).

Thanks,
Luigi

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