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Re: Spawning without a cmd.exe window [message #85255 is a reply to message #85253]

Thu, 18 July 2013 17:52

wlandsman
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Actually, if I would just look at the documentation, I would have found the Windows-only /HIDE keyword to SPAWN. --Wayne

On Thursday, July 18, 2013 7:53:13 PM UTC-4, David Fanning wrote:
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>> This is a question from someone who uses Windows about once a year.
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>> I want to spawn from IDL to an external executable
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>> spawn,'E:\ds9\ds9.exe'
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>> 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?
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> I don't think so. :-(
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> --
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> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
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> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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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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