we are saving the return value to a VFP table but that is not a solution for us. we are interfacing with a third party software that will be processing batch process EXE and need to know the return value.
________________________________ From: KAM.covad <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 1:12:33 PM Subject: Re: How can you get a return code from VPF executable Either that or just write something to a file and then check it after your EXE ends. ----- Original Message ----- From: Stuart Dunkeld To: ProFox Email List Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 10:56 AM Subject: Re: How can you get a return code from VPF executable Have a look at http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ExitCode - essentially you need to call the WIn32API function ExitProcess with your return code (which must be an integer) to end your VFP program. Regards --stuart On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Jean Haidar<[email protected]> wrote: > we have an VFP executable that return either .T. if it run without errors and > return .F. in case of errors > > we have used tried many ways to check its return code. > > from VFP: > > strExe = "c:\batch_process\TEST.exe DATE()-35 DATE()" > cretcode = loshell.Run(strExe,1,.t.) > > > the cretcode is always returning 0 whether or not the VFP exe produce an > error or NOT. > we are inserting the error info into a table when TEST.Exe produce an error > > > we also tried this code from VB.NET > > Dim > myProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = myProcess AsProcess = > NewProcess()TruemyProcess.StartInfo.FileName = > "C:\Jean_dev\Batch_process\TEST.exe"' ArgumentsmyProcess.StartInfo.Arguments > = " date()-35 date() "myProcess.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = > TruemyProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = FalsemyProcess.Start()' need to > wait until it is finishedDoWhilemyProcess.HasExited = False Dimlctime = > NowLoopDimnexitcode = myProcess.ExitCodeDimoutput AsString= > myProcess.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd() > > > nexitcode is always 0 and output is a blank string > > > we are want to avoid writing a DLL and registering on the Server. > > > Jean Haidar > [email protected] > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
