STILL_ACTIVE

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Arne Hegefors

Hi! I have a macro that opens another program. It then is supposed to loop
while that other program is still active. This usually works fine but now
there seems to be a problem. I think the other program is working on
something else to begin with. I would really appreciate some help with what
this STILL_ACTIVE means. I get STILL_ACTIVE = 259. What does that mean?

Dim hProc As Long
Dim lExitCode As Long
Dim ACCESS_TYPE
Dim STILL_ACTIVE
Dim lTaskID As Long

ACCESS_TYPE = &H400
STILL_ACTIVE = &H103

'start the bat file
lTaskID = RunBatFile
'get the process handle

MsgBox "stop"

hProc = OpenProcess(ACCESS_TYPE, False, lTaskID)
If Err <> 0 Then
Exit Sub
End If
'Wait for the batch program to finish
Do
GetExitCodeProcess hProc, lExitCode
DoEvents
Loop While lExitCode = STILL_ACTIVE

Any help much appreciated!
 
C

Chip Pearson

STILL_ACTIVE is a constant, the actual value does not matter

The value doesn't matter!?!?! The value assigned to the constant most
certainly does matter.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel, 10 Years
Pearson Software Consulting
www.cpearson.com
(email on the web site)
 
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Equiangular

Sorry that I could not express my view clearly in the previous post.

What I mean is as long as you get the correct definition of
STILL_ACTIVE, the code will run correctly.
There is need to know why the value of STILL_ACTIVE is 259. It is given
by the function definition.
 

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