OK, I "bodged" it... i created a .bat file with the command, and ran
that with SW_HIDE, and it works as expected now. (some odd interaction
when the options passed to the command in ShellExecute contains a
"quoted" or even \"quoted\" option... dont ask... i have no idea...)
Half the fun of coding is learning why things do not work the way you
think it should do, and finding out why... or working around them :)
Steve
for example, i get a return code of 42 (which is OK apparently :)
Win32::GUI::ShellExecute(0,"open","d:\\mycommand.exe",">d:\\text.txt","d:\\",SW_HIDE);
but the output file doesn't get written.
