How to launch an external program

[jerome]

Hello,

In VBA, I used the following code in order to launch an external program:
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cmd = q & VBA.Environ("SystemRoot") & "\system32\cmd.exe" & q & " /c " & drive & " && cd " & q & procPath & q & " && launch.bat"
VBA.Shell cmd, vbHide
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I could not find how to do the same with OOBasic.

Thanks for your help.

[squenson]

From the excellent A. Pitonyak's e-book (section 5.33), I manage to launch any program:

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  Dim oSvc as object
  oSvc = createUnoService("com.sun.star.system.SystemShellExecute")

  Rem Launch notepad
  oSvc.execute(ConvertToUrl("C:\windows\notepad.exe"), "", 0)

[arfgh]

question, and very interesting...

if we run for example the '7za' (7-zip cmd program) command-line program, can we also capture its exit ?
the end is the DB file integrity check.

Highly interesting in my opinion ....

[Zizi64]

if we run for example the '7za' (7-zip cmd program) command-line program, can we also capture its exit ?

Just a foggy idea:
If you can parametrize the launching command of the software to launch, then you can control the place: where to unpack the file/s/.
And then you can load the extracted file from the known URL by the "LoadComponentFromURL()" API function (as a return value of the function) into an Object type variable.

[arfgh]

example of use of that ?

[Zizi64]

example of use of that ?

I do not know anything about the parameters of the launch command of the '7za' (7-zip cmd program) command-line program. I suppose that you need pass two parameters: the URL of the file to unpack, and the URL or path of the target file/directory.


About the LoadComponentFromURL(): There are many examples in this forum. Search them.
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=57390
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... tarDesktop
http://ooo-forums.apache.org/en/forum/v ... 20&t=38778
...etc...

[Jurassic Pork]

hello,
with the extension EasyDev (see here) it's easy :
to compress some files and see the crc :

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REM  *****  BASIC  *****
Sub Tst_7za()
util = createUnoService("org.universolibre.EasyDev")
res = util.execute(Array("cmd.exe","/c","F:\7zip\7za.exe",_
      "a","F:\temp\Files.7z","F:\temp\*.txt"), True)
util.msgbox(res)
res = util.execute(Array("cmd.exe","/c","F:\7zip\7za.exe",_
      "h","F:\temp\Files.7z"), True)
util.msgbox(res)
End Sub

Friendly, J.P

[arfgh]

well, the end was just to check the own .odb document integrity... and yes you are using an extenion, exist no way to do it without another extension ?
Anyways, what's the purpose of EasyDev ?

[Jurassic Pork]

certainly but it will be more complicated or use a python macro

[arfgh]

i see that you used the 'special msgbox' from EasyDev to show the results.
Exist that documentation in pdf ?