Dos Windos do not close after execute

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hello,

following:

PB 3.5 Dos code:

$compile exe
execute "c:\wordpad.exe"

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Problem: The wordpad opened - but I don´t see it because the
Dos window stayed open as black screen.

How to close the dos window after opening wordpad ?
( the box close after executing is set in the pif-file )

Or how to set the focus always on the "wordpad.exe" to see it ?

Thanks for help.

Regards

Matthias Kuhn

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[Steve Rossell]

This sounds like you are compiling to memory and running from
the IDE. Try compiling to an EXE and then run the EXE outside
of the IDE.

Also put a END statement at the end of your code.

Steve Rossell
PowerBASIC Staff

[Davide Vecchi]

Matthias, i think you need to use some tool to do that (i'm not sure though).

WinLib ( http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/...y/WINLIB12.zip , freeware) - even though it has a very limited set of features - does things like that, so you might investigate it to see if it can help.

Or - more likely - Perfect Sync's DOSBox ( http://www.powerbasic.com/products/dosbox/ ) might have what you need (maybe Eric can tell this); it has a 95%-functional Shareware Version too.

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Davide Vecchi
[email protected]

[This message has been edited by Davide Vecchi (edited August 12, 2005).]