I have a form in an Access 2003 db that calls (using shell - thanks to
this newsgroup) a Vb.net program I wrote to parse a text file. The call
works fine. The VB parses the file correctly.
How do I get the Access form to wait for the VB program to finish? Can
the vb pass code back to Access? Can Access check somehow to see if VB
is closed?
I'm a VB.net newbie.
Thanks in advance.
Jim
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Jim,
This one should do it. (WaitForExit) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...itforexit.aspx
Cor
"Jim" <jo********@RemoveThisStuffNetscape.netschreef in bericht
news:1d******************************@massilloncab letv.com...
>I have a form in an Access 2003 db that calls (using shell - thanks to this
newsgroup) a Vb.net program I wrote to parse a text file. The call works
fine. The VB parses the file correctly.
How do I get the Access form to wait for the VB program to finish? Can
the vb pass code back to Access? Can Access check somehow to see if VB is
closed?
I'm a VB.net newbie.
Thanks in advance.
Jim
Hi Jim,
You can Tell Shell to wait, eg:
Dim rtn As Long
rtn = Shell("myexe.exe", , True)
You can also specify a timeout just in case something goes wrong...
rtn = Shell("myexe.exe", , True, 60000)
Regards,
Bill.
"Jim" <jo********@RemoveThisStuffNetscape.netwrote in message
news:1d******************************@massilloncab letv.com...
>I have a form in an Access 2003 db that calls (using shell - thanks to this
newsgroup) a Vb.net program I wrote to parse a text file. The call works
fine. The VB parses the file correctly.
How do I get the Access form to wait for the VB program to finish? Can
the vb pass code back to Access? Can Access check somehow to see if VB is
closed?
I'm a VB.net newbie.
Thanks in advance.
Jim
Unfortunately that shell command doesn't work in VBA. The VBA help for
Shell warns that the calling program will continue to execute while the
"shelled" program may not have finished.
Any other thoughts?
Jim
>
"Jim" <jo********@RemoveThisStuffNetscape.netwrote in message
news:1d******************************@massilloncab letv.com...
>I have a form in an Access 2003 db that calls (using shell - thanks to
this newsgroup) a Vb.net program I wrote to parse a text file. The
call works fine. The VB parses the file correctly.
How do I get the Access form to wait for the VB program to finish?
Can the vb pass code back to Access? Can Access check somehow to see
if VB is closed?
I'm a VB.net newbie.
Thanks in advance.
Jim
Bill McCarthy wrote:
Hi Jim,
You can Tell Shell to wait, eg:
Dim rtn As Long
rtn = Shell("myexe.exe", , True)
You can also specify a timeout just in case something goes wrong...
rtn = Shell("myexe.exe", , True, 60000)
Regards,
Bill.
Guilty of not looking for myself. See:
vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/faq/getexitcprocess.htm
or www.mvps.org/access/api/api0004.htm
Jim
Jim wrote:
Unfortunately that shell command doesn't work in VBA. The VBA help for
Shell warns that the calling program will continue to execute while the
"shelled" program may not have finished.
Any other thoughts?
Jim
>>
"Jim" <jo********@RemoveThisStuffNetscape.netwrote in message
news:1d******************************@massillonca bletv.com...
>>I have a form in an Access 2003 db that calls (using shell - thanks
to this newsgroup) a Vb.net program I wrote to parse a text file.
The call works fine. The VB parses the file correctly.
How do I get the Access form to wait for the VB program to finish?
Can the vb pass code back to Access? Can Access check somehow to see
if VB is closed?
I'm a VB.net newbie.
Thanks in advance.
Jim
Bill McCarthy wrote:
Hi Jim,
>
You can Tell Shell to wait, eg:
>
Dim rtn As Long
rtn = Shell("myexe.exe", , True)
>
You can also specify a timeout just in case something goes wrong...
>
rtn = Shell("myexe.exe", , True, 60000)
>
Regards,
>
Bill.
Glad to see you got it working.
Sorry for the bad steer on Shell, I was thinking VB6 and didn't realize VBA
was different on that one.
"Jim" <jo********@RemoveThisStuffNetscape.netwrote in message
news:So******************************@massilloncab letv.com...
Guilty of not looking for myself. See:
vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/faq/getexitcprocess.htm
or
www.mvps.org/access/api/api0004.htm
Jim
Jim wrote:
>Unfortunately that shell command doesn't work in VBA. The VBA help for
Shell warns that the calling program will continue to execute while the
"shelled" program may not have finished.
Any other thoughts?
Jim
>>>
"Jim" <jo********@RemoveThisStuffNetscape.netwrote in message
news:1d******************************@massillonc abletv.com...
>>>I have a form in an Access 2003 db that calls (using shell - thanks to
this newsgroup) a Vb.net program I wrote to parse a text file. The
call works fine. The VB parses the file correctly.
How do I get the Access form to wait for the VB program to finish? Can
the vb pass code back to Access? Can Access check somehow to see if VB
is closed?
I'm a VB.net newbie.
Thanks in advance.
Jim
Bill McCarthy wrote:
> Hi Jim,
You can Tell Shell to wait, eg:
Dim rtn As Long
rtn = Shell("myexe.exe", , True)
You can also specify a timeout just in case something goes wrong...
rtn = Shell("myexe.exe", , True, 60000)
Regards,
Bill.
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