2 * Start a program using ShellExecuteEx, optionally wait for it to finish
3 * Compatible with Microsoft's "c:\windows\command\start.exe"
5 * Copyright 2003 Dan Kegel
7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
8 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
9 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
10 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
12 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
15 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
18 * License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
28 #include "resources.h"
31 Output given message to stdout without formatting.
33 static void output(const char *message
)
36 WriteFile(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE
), message
, strlen(message
), &count
, NULL
);
42 followed by description of given GetLastError() value to stdout,
43 followed by a trailing newline,
46 static void fatal_error(const char *msg
, DWORD error_code
)
53 status
= FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER
| FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM
, NULL
, error_code
, 0, (LPTSTR
) & lpMsgBuf
, 0, NULL
);
55 output("FormatMessage failed\n");
58 LocalFree((HLOCAL
) lpMsgBuf
);
65 Output given message from string table,
67 followed by description of given GetLastError() value to stdout,
68 followed by a trailing newline,
71 static void fatal_string_error(int which
, DWORD error_code
)
75 if (!LoadString(GetModuleHandle(NULL
), which
,
77 fatal_error("LoadString failed", GetLastError());
79 fatal_error(msg
, error_code
);
82 static void fatal_string(int which
)
86 if (!LoadString(GetModuleHandle(NULL
), which
,
88 fatal_error("LoadString failed", GetLastError());
94 static void usage(void)
96 fatal_string(STRING_USAGE
);
99 static void license(void)
101 fatal_string(STRING_LICENSE
);
104 static char *build_args( int argc
, char **argv
)
109 for (i
= 0; i
< argc
; i
++ )
110 len
+= strlen(argv
[i
]) + 1;
111 ret
= HeapAlloc( GetProcessHeap(), 0, len
);
114 for (i
= 0, p
= ret
; i
< argc
; i
++ )
115 p
+= sprintf(p
, " %s", argv
[i
]);
119 int main(int argc
, char *argv
[])
121 SHELLEXECUTEINFO sei
;
125 memset(&sei
, 0, sizeof(sei
));
126 sei
.cbSize
= sizeof(sei
);
128 sei
.nShow
= SW_SHOWNORMAL
;
129 /* Dunno what these mean, but it looks like winMe's start uses them */
130 sei
.fMask
= SEE_MASK_FLAG_DDEWAIT
|SEE_MASK_FLAG_NO_UI
;
132 /* Canonical Microsoft commandline flag processing:
133 * flags start with /, are case insensitive,
134 * and may be run together in same word.
136 for (i
=1; i
<argc
; i
++) {
139 if (argv
[i
][0] != '/')
142 /* Handle all options in this word */
143 for (ci
=0; argv
[i
][ci
]; ) {
146 switch(argv
[i
][ci
]) {
150 break; /* notreached */
153 if (argv
[i
][ci
+1] == 'a' || argv
[i
][ci
+1] == 'A')
154 sei
.nShow
= SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED
;
156 sei
.nShow
= SW_SHOWMINIMIZED
;
160 /* sei.nShow = SW_SHOWNORMAL; */
164 sei
.fMask
|= SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS
;
167 printf("Option '%s' not recognized\n", argv
[i
]+ci
-1);
170 /* Skip to next slash */
171 while (argv
[i
][ci
] && (argv
[i
][ci
] != '/'))
179 sei
.lpFile
= argv
[i
++];
181 args
= build_args( argc
- i
, &argv
[i
] );
182 sei
.lpParameters
= args
;
184 if (!ShellExecuteEx(&sei
))
185 fatal_string_error(STRING_EXECFAIL
, GetLastError());
187 HeapFree( GetProcessHeap(), 0, args
);
189 if (sei
.fMask
& SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS
) {
192 waitcode
= WaitForSingleObject(sei
.hProcess
, INFINITE
);
194 fatal_error("WaitForSingleObject", GetLastError());
195 if (!GetExitCodeProcess(sei
.hProcess
, &exitcode
))
196 fatal_error("GetExitCodeProcess", GetLastError());
197 /* fixme: haven't tested whether exit code works properly */
198 ExitProcess(exitcode
);