further about ShellExecute()

[kaya17]

hi, i got a difficult question to be solved with the ShellExecute() function.

that is,
i use the ShellExecute() funtion to launch the program "Angry IP Scanner", i passed the following command to open the scanner:
"IPSCAN 111.111.111.111 222.222.222.222 filename.csv"

these two ip addresses is the ip range which the scanning based on.
since it will take a long time for the scanner to scan the network, the launching interface(that is my program)became inactive for a long time(1 or 2 mins the dialog shadow stayed in the center of the window), what should i do to give the user some feedback rather than giving them a dialog shadow in the center of the window?

your help is very much appreciated!
thanks in advance!

regards,
kaya

 

[Skute]

You can try executing it from a separate thread.
See CreateThreadEx - Then your GUI will be running in one thread so the user can continue navigating etc, and also your other thread can keep scanning.



Skute

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[Cagliostro]

try using system("command")...
It will show the console with console output

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