ShellExecute patch

Duane Clark dclark at akamail.com
Sun Jul 21 19:39:58 CDT 2002


Steven Edwards wrote:
 >> I guess I am not sure what the problem is with WinExec. Originally
 >> ShellExecuteEx used CreateProcessA and ShellExecute used WinExec,
 >> which simply calls CreateProcessA. I could certainly directly call
 >> CreateProcessA if that is preferable.
 >
 >
 > Yes, I tried to do that once before but could not get it to work
 > quite right as I am still learning how to program. Mingw cant import
 > from the Win16 api so CreateProcess needs to be used if we want to
 > have shell32 for testing under mingw or use under ReactOS.

Hmm, the WinExec looks fairly easy but the WinExec16 appears to be a bit 
more difficult to handle. Perhaps it could be handled more easily with 
some sort of ifdef around those parts? Any suggestions?





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