Running a GUI program from within a dialog based program but waiting for it to close.

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OK, The subject line says it all. I need to start a windows GUI program when my user clicks a button and wait for the GUI to return. I've been mucking around with ::system and I can get the GUI running but the ::system function returns immediately...

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Ron H.

Posted 5-Apr-13 5:13am

Ron Harshbarger

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Leo Chapiro · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-05T05:16:00

Good question, Ron! Try to do something like this:

C++

STARTUPINFO info={sizeof(info)};
PROCESS_INFORMATION processInfo;
if (CreateProcess(path, cmd, NULL, NULL, TRUE, 0, NULL, NULL, &info, &processInfo))
{
    ::WaitForSingleObject(processInfo.hProcess, INFINITE);
    CloseHandle(processInfo.hProcess);
    CloseHandle(processInfo.hThread);
}

Good luck!