..status of external program..

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Naughty Alien (Posted 2014) [#1]

Hi guys. Forgive me if im asking something obvious, as, its some time since I used bmax. So, I want to know when external program, called from within bmax, is ended. How should I do that?

GW (Posted 2014) [#2]

working from memory here.. There is the 'System_' command, it will block bmax until the sub process is finished. Then there is pub.FreeProcess. it will allow you to capture the forked programs output and doesn't block bmax. I believe it has some methods to check the status of called program.

Kryzon (Posted 2014) [#3]

SebHoll illustrates how to use FreeProcess here: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=68847#769756 Basically, you're after the Status method of a TProcess object, which tells if it's still running.

Naughty Alien (Posted 2014) [#4]

..thank you guys, very very much..