Как запустить программу и дождаться завершения ее работы

Private Type PROCESS_INFORMATION

hProcess As Long

hThread As Long

dwProcessID As Long

dwThreadID As Long

End Type



Private Type STARTUPINFO

cb As Long

lpReserved As String

lpDesktop As String

lpTitle As String

dwX As Long

dwY As Long

dwXSize As Long

dwYSize As Long

dwXCountChars As Long

dwYCountChars As Long

dwFillAttribute As Long

dwFlags As Long

wShowWindow As Integer

cbReserved2 As Integer

lpReserved2 As Long

hStdInput As Long

hStdOutput As Long

hStdError As Long

End Type

	  

Private Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" _

(ByVal hObject As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function CreateProcessA Lib "kernel32" _

(ByVal lpApplicationName As Long, ByVal lpCommandLine As String, _

ByVal lpProcessAttributes As Long, ByVal lpThreadAttributes As Long, _

ByVal bInheritHandles As Long, ByVal dwCreationFlags As Long, _

ByVal lpEnvironment As Long, ByVal lpCurrentDirectory As Long, _

lpStartupInfo As STARTUPINFO, lpProcessInformation As PROCESS_INFORMATION) _

As Long



Private Declare Function WaitForSingleObject Lib "kernel32" _

(ByVal hHandle As Long, ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) As Long



Private Const INFINITE = -1&

Private Const NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS = &H20&

	  

Dim FileName As String



Private Sub RunFile(FileName)

Dim Process As PROCESS_INFORMATION

Dim Prog As STARTUPINFO

Prog.cb = Len(Prog)

CreateProcessA 0&, FileName, 0&, 0&, 1&, _

NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, 0&, 0&, Prog, Process

WaitForSingleObject Process.hProcess, INFINITE

CloseHandle Process.hProcess

End Sub



Private Sub Command1_Click()

MsgBox "Программа запущена"

RunFile "c:\windows\notepad.exe"

MsgBox "Программа закрыта"

End Sub