Call WinAPI?

[Phil Davis]

I opened a DOS window on my Win98SE machine and got this info about 'start'. Looks like it should indeed be able to launch an app minimized.

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Microsoft(R) Windows 98
   (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.

C:\WINDOWS>start /?
Runs a Windows program or an MS-DOS program.

START [options] program [arg...]
START [options] document.ext

/m[inimized] Run the new program minimized (in the background).
/max[imized] Run the new program maximized (in the foreground).
/r[estored]  Run the new program restored (in the foreground). [default]
/w[ait]      Does not return until the other program exits.

C:\WINDOWS>

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Phil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dar Scott" <dsc at swcp.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Call WinAPI?


> 
> On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 07:24 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
> 
> > If they don't have a command line argument, you will need to have 
> > some other
> > app (such as a small VB app) do this for you (unless someone else 
> > knows how
> > to do this).
> 
> Try the shell command "start".  I use it for console apps and it 
> might work for GUIs.  I'm not sure what Windows has that, though.  
> My W2K does.
> 
> Dar Scott
> 
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