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Visual Basic EASY help

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:51 pm
by Viral
Hey!

I'm starting to work with VB 2005.

I've got the design thing figured out, but I'm making myself a little APP that will boot up ANY applicaation that I desire.

When I press a button, it will launch: Simple.


Anyone Can Help..?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:11 pm
by Tural

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Shell(Application Path)

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:17 pm
by Viral
ok, so, that's perfect.

Where is the file path?

like...C://Program Files/ece/ecsw/ec?

I want all the apps INCLUDED in the application




EDIT: I got this from a tutorial here:

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Process.Start("directory it will be in.exe")
What's the directory:: IF I wanted all the applications included in the program, where would the dir be? where do I put the applications?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:46 pm
by Tural
I'm not sure about VB2005, but in VB6 it was like this:

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Shell(App.Path & "\Apps\DotHalo.exe")
Dothalo is an example, but App.Path is what you would want, so it would be wherever the Application is, and then Apps directory, then DotHalo.exe

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:02 pm
by Viral
Ok, i'll try this, and update later.

ALSO: I'm adding a progress bar, to show the loading time. Is there a code for that?

(so when the user clicks the app, the progress bar shows the loading time)

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:50 pm
by Viral
Ok, HUGE goodness :)

I've got a button setup for DotHalo! :)

I've got the following code:

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Process.Start("/apps/dothalo/DotHalo.exe")
I've got the dir's all lined up, NO problems there, but it's not executing dothalo.

I want it to launch from my VB .exe.

Any suggestions :\?

I can't get this working.

Correct my code?

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:00 pm
by L
How would you make it turn of your computer? what code?

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:04 pm
by Viral
w...what?


Here is my delemia:

I have a VB .exe file I just made, which has a button linking to DotHalo.

Here is my code:

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Process.Start("/apps/dothalo/DotHalo.exe")
so, when the user clicks the button, it starts up the application, DotHalo. However, when Itried this out, it didn't work, giving me an error. I checked my dir, and everything is good.

My .exe Dir:

- = Folder


:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
vbproject.exe
-apps
--dothalo
---DotHalo.exe
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::


Can someone help me out?


the code again:

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Process.Start("/apps/dothalo/DotHalo.exe")