Aus meiner KB (ungeprüft):
Starting a Program from Notes and Waiting for It to Finish
02/08/2000
At times, you might find it useful to start a program from Notes and wait for the program to finish. For example, when a user must complete a task in a non-Notes application before a Notes app can continue, such as creating a spreadsheet in Excel that a Notes application will use. Note that although the following sample code works under Win32, you could adapt it for other operating systems. The code below starts a program in Notes and waits for it to finish.
Public Type STARTUPINFO
cb As Long
lpReserved As String
lpDesktop As String
lpTitle As String
dwX As Long
dwY As Long
dwXSize As Long
dwYSize As Long
dwXCountChars As Long
dwYCountChars As Long
dwFillAttribute As Long
dwFlags As Long
wShowWindow As Integer
cbReserved2 As Integer
lpReserved2 As Long
hStdInput As Long
hStdOutput As Long
hStdError As Long
End Type
Public Type PROCESS_INFORMATION
hProcess As Long
hThread As Long
dwProcessID As Long
dwThreadID As Long
End Type
Declare Function WaitForSingleObject Lib "kernel32" (Byval _
hHandle As Long, Byval dwMilliseconds As Long) As Long
Declare Function CreateProcessA Lib "kernel32" (Byval _
lpApplicationName As Long, Byval lpCommandLine As String, Byval _
lpProcessAttributes As Long, Byval lpThreadAttributes As Long, _
Byval bInheritHandles As Long, Byval dwCreationFlags As Long, _
Byval lpEnvironment As Long, Byval lpCurrentDirectory As Long, _
lpStartupInfo As STARTUPINFO, lpProcessInformation As _
PROCESS_INFORMATION) As Long
Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" (Byval _
hObject As Long) As Long
Public Const NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS = &H20&
Public Const INFINITE = -1&
Public Sub ShellAndWait(Byval RunProg As String)
' From Kevin Pauli (kcpauli@usa.net)
Dim RetVal As Long
Dim proc As PROCESS_INFORMATION
Dim StartInf As STARTUPINFO
StartInf.cb = Len(StartInf)
'Execute the given path
RetVal = CreateProcessA(0&, RunProg, 0&, 0&, 1&, _
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, 0&, 0&, StartInf, proc)
'Disable this app until the shelled one is done
RetVal = WaitForSingleObject(proc.hProcess, INFINITE)
RetVal = CloseHandle(proc.hProcess)
End Sub