Rohit,
I think you have to execute either control.exe or cpanel.exe and pass the
name of the appliet as a parameter on the command line.
I vaguely remember having something like
WinExec('control.exe','date/time');
HTH
Trevor
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Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: RE: [DUG] Running CPLs
> No it doesnt. I have tried winexec and shellexecute. The error ranges
from "File not found", "Do not know how to execute it", "file not an
executable 0 wrong format" and "no file association for cpl"
>
>
> >
> > From: Stephen Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 2003/12/05 Fri AM 10:27:34 GMT+13:00
> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: RE: [DUG] Running CPLs
> >
> > if you open timedate.cpl in explorer it works, so I assume you can also
do a
> >
> >
> > ShellExecute(handle,'open',...
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rohit Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 11:04 a.m.
> > > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> > > Subject: [DUG] Running CPLs
> > >
> > >
> > > I am converting over a dedicated DOS app to Windows. The user
> > > is to have no access to any windows feature or appelets... hopefully
> > > we can achieve this.
> > >
> > > However we need a way to set time and date. Rather than
> > > reinventing the wheel, is there any way I can run the WIndows
> > > appalet from Delphi ?
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Rohit
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