Wait till Application has opened

[c6ke]

Hey there, me again

I have the following:

PHP Code:

ShellExecute(form1.Handle, 'open', PChar('c:\windows\notepad.exe'), nil, nil, SW_SHOW);
sleep(1000);
ShellExecute(form1.Handle, 'open', PChar('c:\windows\calc.exe'), nil, nil, SW_SHOW); 


Ok at the moment my app waits 1 Sec. before it continues opening calculator. As you might imagine not every application is opened in 1 sec.

I'd like to have it that it opens notepad - waits till notepad has opened and then continues opening calculator. How do I do that?

I googled something about handles and stuff but that didn't help me much...

[muno]

I'd actually like to know that also.

The vb program I made was supposed to launch an install of something and then when it has finished disconnect a network drive.
But as I didn't know how to make it wait till the install finishes, I had to make a batch file with pause in the middle

[c6ke]

yeah but pause (sleep in my case) is not an option as I'm progging a startup manager. you put it into the autostart menu -

It takes all the stuff from the startup-points in the registry and startup folders - disables it all there and starts it itself one after another - I hope this decreases loading time.... - just a try...

I need the code for my one-after another- as the prog needs to know when the external app has started for that it can start the next one you see - it's kind of easy...