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-Naval Ravikant
2018-05-08 22:07:29

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Sometimes, we need to run another program in our program, and to perform some actions only after the program runs to completion.

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Here is how:

procedure FlushMouseAndKeyboardWindowsMessages;
var
  Msg : TMsg;
begin
  while PeekMessage( Msg, 0, WM_MOUSEFIRST, WM_MOUSELAST, PM_REMOVE) do;
  while PeekMessage( Msg, 0, WM_KEYFIRST, WM_KEYLAST, PM_REMOVE) do;
end;


procedure RunAnotherProgramAndWait(aProgram: string; aCmdLineParameters: string);
var
  _startInfo: TStartupInfo;
  _processInfo: TProcessInformation;
  _res :cardinal;
begin
  FillChar(_startInfo, SizeOf(_startInfo), #0);
  _startInfo.cb := SizeOf(_startInfo);
  _startInfo.dwFlags := STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
  _startInfo.wShowWindow := SW_SHOWNORMAL;
  if CreateProcess(PChar(aProgram),
    PChar(aCmdLineParameters),
    Nil, // pointer to process security attributes
    Nil, // pointer to thread security attributes
    False, // handle inheritance flag
    0, // creation flags
    Nil, // pointer to new environment block
    Nil, // pointer to current directory name
    _startInfo, // pointer to STARTUPINFO
    _processInfo // pointer to PROCESS_INFORMATION
    ) then
  begin
    //Wait for it to terminate
    repeat
      FlushMouseAndKeyboardWindowsMessages;
      application.ProcessMessages;
      _res := MsgWaitForMultipleObjects(1, _processInfo.hProcess, False,
        INFINITE, QS_PAINT);
      until
        _res = WAIT_OBJECT_0;
  end;
end;