Call WinAPI?

[Ken Ray]

Scott,

All that means is to use the shell() command to launch their setup
application. SW_SHOWMINIMIZED means (I believe) that the setup application
should be launched in a minimized state. This may be able to be done by
passing a switch to the shell() command line argument. If you can determine
from them (or from the company that makes the installer software) if there
is a switch to pass, you may need to do nothing other than issue a shell
command. For example, if the switch is "/m", you could just say:

  get shell("c:\theirfolder\setup.exe /m")

If they don't have a command line argument, you will need to have some other
app (such as a small VB app) do this for you (unless someone else knows how
to do this).

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com>
To: "MetaCard List" <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 7:18 PM
Subject: Call WinAPI?


> I have a MetaCard stack that launches a client's installer
> (InstallShield).  The client wants to me to determine if I can hide the
> decompress progressbar of their installer using my MetaCard stack.  I
> was asked by the programmer of the client to see if I can get MetaCard
> to "call WinAPI to launch our setup" and "use Shell32.ShellExecute with
> SW_SHOWMINIMIZED" to hide the progress bar.
>
> Anyone know if the above can be translated into a command/script that I
> can issue from MC?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director, Tactile Media
> scott at tactilemedia.com
> http://www.tactilemedia.com
>
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