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Re: Spawning without a cmd.exe window [message #85254 is a reply to message #85252]

Thu, 18 July 2013 17:52

Heinz Stege
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Registered: January 2003

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On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:47:12 -0700 (PDT), wlandsman wrote:

> 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?
>
> Thanks, --Wayne

Yes, set the /NOSHELL keyword and there is no such window.

If you don't want IDL to wait for the spawned process to finish, set
the /NOWAIT keyword also.

Cheers, Heinz

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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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