opening a program from inside another,need help

i think you can do something like this

system("cd directoryProgramIsIn"); system("programName commandline");

the system function may or may not be called exaclty that but someone else might know the name of it or you could look it up in the help files of MSVC

"Yo yo ma"
-Kramer

If you''re using windows, don''t use system (which is in stdlib.h btw), you should use ShellExecute or ShellExecuteEx.

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correct me if I''m wrong, but I think you can use windows ShellExecute in your console, just don''t specify an HWND for error messages

HINSTANCE ShellExecute(
HWND hwnd,
LPCTSTR lpOperation,
LPCTSTR lpFile,
LPCTSTR lpParameters,
LPCTSTR lpDirectory,
INT nShowCmd
);

the problem would be ending this program when you want to. If you are shelling a windows application, I think you can use FindWindow() to get the main app window, if you know the window name

HWND FindWindow(
LPCTSTR lpClassName, // pointer to class name
LPCTSTR lpWindowName // pointer to window name
);

and call SendMessage(hwnd,WM_QUIT or WM_CLOSE,0,0).

Regards,
Alex.

ok got it to work, thanks for the help

the ciscokid