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Gould660

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Posted: 12th May 2009 22:08

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Today in my programming class my teacher said that we would have to know how to run a program off of our main program. So we would basically have to know how to run 2 programs at once I tried to use dbExecuteFile() but I don't really know how to use it. Help me please.

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ABXG

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Posted: 13th May 2009 01:26

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Unless the class you are involved with is specifically using DarkGDK you may want to look into using Windows shell functions. Look at this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762153(VS.85).aspx

An example would be:

ShellExecute (NULL, NULL, "fileName", NULL, "FileLocation", SW_SHOW);

This solution worked for me in a quick test program I just created.

ShellExecute is located in the windows.h header.

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Currently 1500+ lines of code into an "over-the-shoulder" action RPG with combat based on rag-doll physics.

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Gould660

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Posted: 13th May 2009 20:22

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Shell execute does work but the problem is is that I'm doing this on my schools computers so the directory is always changing. And I have no access to the c drive.

So I wanted to store it into the same file that my program is grabbing the dirext x files from(images etc.).

I tryed to look at the documentation for it but it doesn't help me at all.

Also I am using dark gdk on my own expense for the class I just need to integrate my other programs into dark gdk for the graphics.

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