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Re: Spawning without a cmd.exe window [message #85253 is a reply to message #85252]

Thu, 18 July 2013 16:53

David Fanning
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wlandsman writes:

> This is a question from someone who uses Windows about once a year.
>
> I want to spawn from IDL to an external executable
>
> spawn,'E:\ds9\ds9.exe'
>
> and it works fine as the ds9 program is displayed. But I also get a cmd.exe window (which goes away when I exit the ds9 program). Is there a way to have the cmd.exe window not appear or to have it hidden?

I don't think so. :-(

Cheers,

David

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		Spawning without a cmd.exe window By: wlandsman on Thu, 18 July 2013 16:47
		Re: Spawning without a cmd.exe window By: David Fanning on Thu, 18 July 2013 16:53
		Re: Spawning without a cmd.exe window By: wlandsman on Thu, 18 July 2013 17:52
		Re: Spawning without a cmd.exe window By: Heinz Stege on Thu, 18 July 2013 17:58
		Re: Spawning without a cmd.exe window By: wlandsman on Thu, 18 July 2013 18:08
		Re: Spawning without a cmd.exe window By: Heinz Stege on Thu, 18 July 2013 17:52

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