hidden commandline-tool Topic is solved

[MoonKid]

I have a wxWidgets application and it call a extern commandline-tool. The tool apear in the windows-taskbar and a terminal-box ("dos-box") is opend while it runs.

There is no need for this, because the tool doesn't need input from the user or output to the screen.

Is it possible to call/run a commandline-tool from my wx-application in a hidden state?

[Frank]

If you use wxExecute/wxProcess you can supress the Console-Window. Wx hides it, when you redirect input and output.

[TrV]

Yes. Just use an unused process :

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wxProcess* proc = new wxProcess(wxPROCESS_REDIRECT); // unused process in order to keep dos window hidden
wxString cmdLine;
...

wxExecute(cmdLine, wxEXEC_SYNC, proc);

delete proc;

[stevelam]

Or like this:

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wxArrayString output, errors;
wxString cmdLine;
wxExecute (cmdLine, output, errors, wxEXEC_SYNC);