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  15 years ago

  by Andy Roberts

  Andrew Roberts

  Harare, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

  Joined 15 years ago

  Does anyone know how to implemet a .exe from inside VB6? I need to use a utility that prints a txt file to a dot matrix printer.

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  15 years ago

  by rshroff

  Roomy Shroff

  Mumbai, INDIA, India

  Joined 15 years ago
  You can use ShellExecute
  
  Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" _
   (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _
   ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, _
   ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
  
  That is the defination.
  
  To use it:
  Private Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1
  
  lngRC = ShellExecute(hwnd, "open", strLink, "", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL)
  
  
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  15 years ago

  by Andy Roberts

  Andrew Roberts

  Harare, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

  Joined 15 years ago
  Thanks for that, works great!
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