it gives an error message.

What error message?
Maybe you need some other keystrokes to set the focus
on the right button in that app and only then send ENTER.

RBS


"Marco" wrote in message
oups.com...
Thanks RBS but the problem still remains.
Your code is great in the sense that the text I want to type in
the .exe file is typed in correctly but when it executes by the
SendKeys "{ENTER}",
it gives an error message.
In the case I let the vba code open the file and then it is me to
enter "select + "{ENTER}", the .exe file still doesn't work.
In the case I open the file normally without vba code and i type in
"select + "{ENTER}" it works properly.

i'm really confused !!!??!!


Option Explicit
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 Type PROCESS_INFORMATION
hProcess As Long
hThread As Long
dwProcessID As Long
dwThreadId As Long
End Type


Private Declare Function WaitForSingleObject _
Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hHandle As Long, _
ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function CreateProcessA _
Lib "kernel32" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, _
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 String, _
lpStartupInfo As STARTUPINFO, _
lpProcessInformation As PROCESS_INFORMATION) As Long


Private Declare Function GetExitCodeProcess _
Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hProcess As Long, _
lpExitCode As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" _
(ByVal hObject As Long) As Long
Private Const NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS = 32


Sub test()


'experiment with the 1000 as you may need less or even 0
ExecCmd "Y:\Programs\Sel.exe", 100000, True

End Sub



Function ExecCmd(sCmdLine As String, _
lmSecsWait As Long, _
Optional bShowWindow As Boolean) As Long


'will start an external process and
'wait till this process is finished
'returns -1 if successfull and -1 if not
'-----------------------------------------
Dim proc As PROCESS_INFORMATION
Dim Start As STARTUPINFO
Dim lReturn As Long


'Initialize the STARTUPINFO structu
With Start
.cb = Len(Start)
.dwFlags = 1 'hexadecimal would be &H1
If bShowWindow Then
.wShowWindow = 1
End If
End With


'Start the shelled application:
lReturn = CreateProcessA(sCmdLine, _
vbNullString, _
0, _
0, _
1, _
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, _
0, _
vbNullString, _
Start, _
proc)


'Wait for the shelled application to finish:
lReturn = WaitForSingleObject(proc.hProcess, lmSecsWait)
SendKeys "Select"
' SendKeys "{ENTER}"
GetExitCodeProcess proc.hProcess, lReturn
CloseHandle proc.hThread
CloseHandle proc.hProcess
ExecCmd = lReturn


End Function