Running an external program from within Delphi

ste...@compcent.demon.co.uk

Delphi Developer

Wed, 29 Apr 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Running an external program from within Delphi

Can anybody help !!
We are trying to run R&R [report writer ] from within Delphi but
cannot find a shell command or equivalent . How can we do this ?
Steve Bogacz
Email ste...@compcent.demon.co.uk

Roy Crossfiel

Delphi Developer

Sun, 03 May 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Re:Running an external program from within Delphi

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> Can anybody help !!
> We are trying to run R&R [report writer ] from within Delphi but
> cannot find a shell command or equivalent . How can we do this ?
> Steve Bogacz
> Email ste...@compcent.demon.co.uk

Steve,

To execute another program or pif file, from within Delphi, you can use the
WinExec procedure. Here is an example.

procedure Run_MyProg;
var FileName : Array[0..255] of char;
begin
StrPCopy(FileName, 'MYPROG.EXE');
WinExec(FileName, SW_SHOW);
end;

Hope this of use to you.

Paul Linsell.

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