Finding out when an application is closed

[CMR]

I have an application that starts other applications using ShellExecute (it's a simple menu system). My question is: is there any way my menu app can know when the application it has executed is closed?

thanks in advance

CMR

 

[MKuiper]

Call ShellExecuteEx instead of ShellExecute.
Include SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS in the fMask field of the SHELLEXECUTEINFO structure. After a successfull call of ShellExecuteEx, the hProcess field of SHELLEXECUTEINFO contains a handle to the created process.
With this handle you can call GetExitCodeProcess, which will return STILL_ACTIVE if it is still running, or it's exit code if it has stopped.
If it is stopped, do not forget to call CloseHandle with the process handle.
NOTE: STILL_ACTIVE is defined as 259. Do not call exit( ) or ExitProcess( ) with a value of 259 as exitstatus in any program, or this will not work.
Marcel

 

[CMR]

Thanks very much - Just what I needed.

CMR