Hi, I have an application written in Ruby (it's actually a windows service). It needs to launch other applications. The problem I am having is that when I call system("args to launch app") it never returns, because I guess the app never returns until it is closed.
I want to be able to launch the app and then continue on. What is the proper way to do this? A thread?
service). It needs to launch other applications. The problem I am having is that when I call system("args to launch app") it never returns, because I guess the app never returns until it is closed. you can use the "start" windows command, so from your system call you would call "start" passing the parameters to start your external application. If you don't want to see a shell window, you can pass /B to the start command
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phil wrote:
Hi, I have an application written in Ruby (it's actually a windows service). It needs to launch other applications. The problem I am having is that when I call system("args to launch app") it never returns, because I guess the app never returns until it is closed.
Do a system ("start application.exe args to launch app")
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