Know when .cmd has finished

[krayten]

Hi folks,

I have a little macros which at one point shells a .cmd file to run
minimised, almost
in the background as it were.

Shell "C:\Hotfixer\customscan.cmd", 2

The trouble is I don't want the user moving on into the next phase of
event handling until that
..cmd has completed what it needed to do. The user could end up querying
for data that the
..cmd hasn't yet returned.

What I want to do is have a "please wait" then a "OK Data retrieved"
kind of sequence
which starts when the shell spawns and the finishes when the .cmd
expires.

I'd be very grateful indeed for any advice or sample code.

I am very new to xlvba so the simpler it could be the better!!!

Many thanks,

========
Stuart

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi krayten

You can use
ShellAndWait

You cand find the code and see how you can use it here
http://www.rondebruin.nl/zip.htm

 

[Dave Peterson]

If you're lucky and you know that your .cmd file always takes less than x
seconds, you could add application.wait (x + 30% seconds)
(or whatever you feel comfortable with.)

But there are other ways.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=214248
XL2000: How to Force Macro Code to Wait for Outside Procedure
or

Here's a link to a nice ShellAndWait function that does that.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ump2dlfcBHA.1656@tkmsftngp03

 

[krayten]

Super, sounds like exactly what i need - thank you!

 

[krayten]

Dave,

That's ideal. I'll check out all these suggestions.
Thanks for the superswift response!!

Best regards,

Stuart