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Hello Everyone..

Programatically am trying to run on Microsoft office 2007. The code looks like this:

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char exe_arr[100]="E:\\setup.exe";
HINSTANCE hInst = ShellExecute(0,"open",exe_arr,"",0,SW_SHOW);


Anyhow after executing this, The code opens the office setup.exe...

And latter Am determining the status of the exe i.e., If exe is running the status is 1, And if exe is quit the status is 0.

To determine the exe status, the code looks like this:

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int isRunning;
isRunning=FIND_PROC_BY_NAME("setup.exe");


When i execute this code, FIND_PROC_BY_NAME returns 0 status, eventhough setup.exe is running..& it should return 1 status right ?

But this code works fine for other exe applications..

Can anyone tell, Why it is returning 0 status for office setup.exe ??


Thanks in advance..!!
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Updated 26-Apr-12 4:04am
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Code-o-mat 26-Apr-12 10:18am    
How do you know it is running? If you check task manager, do you see a/the process called setup.exe?
Guru_C++ 27-Apr-12 0:02am    
Yes.. I can see the setup.exe in task manager
Code-o-mat 27-Apr-12 3:49am    
Then my next question would be -as Richard already asked- what is FIND_PROC_BY_NAME. Now, the name is quite obvious, what he probably means is -and it is also what i'd like to see- how does FIND_PROC_BY_NAME work? Do you have the source for this method? If possible, use "improve question" and add the code of this function. It is pretty unlikely that anyone will be able to tell you why it does not work without actually SEEING anything but its name.
Richard MacCutchan 26-Apr-12 10:54am    
What is FIND_PROC_BY_NAME? It does not look like a Microsoft SDK function.
Guru_C++ 27-Apr-12 0:03am    
FIND_PROC_BY_NAME: It determines whether the process is running or not.. If it is running then it returns 1 or else 0.

You can use GetExitCodeProcess[^] and check for STILL_ACTIVE (259) to see if the process is still running or not.

A better method than polling for process completion, I think, would be to create the process with CreateProcess[^], then use WaitForSingleObject on the process handle to know exactly when the process exits.

Two reasons this is a better method:

1. "setup.exe" may or may not refer to the "setup.exe" you started. There may be more than one instance.

2. polling is a waste of processor resources, WFSO is a more efficient and elegant solution.

-PaulH
 
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Guru_C++ 27-Apr-12 0:54am    
Thank you.. It works fine... But if the setup.exe is run as administrator, then also CreateProcess wii=ll return 0 status.. Am not getting why it happens with Run as administrator..
Paul Heil 27-Apr-12 11:41am    
If you want to create a process with increased permissions, then you need to use CreateProcessAsUser or CreateProcessesWithLogon.
you can enumerate all the active processes list and then you can check if your process is running or not.if the process is running,you can terminate that by using terminateprocess() window function;
you can have a look on the following sample
http://forums.codeguru.com/showthread.php?t=457604[^]
 
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