question about Shell Function

[cinnie]

greetings

The VB help for 'Shell Function' give the following example:
Dim RetVal 'Variant (Double) representing the program's task ID if
successful
RetVal = Shell("C:\WINDOWS\CALC.EXE", 1) ' Run Calculator.

I attached this code to a command button just to experiment. Why does it
produce a different value each time? The last 4 clicks produced values of
3500, 2756, 1616 and 3956.

thanks

 

[Stefan Hoffmann]

hi,

cinnie write:

RetVal = Shell("C:\WINDOWS\CALC.EXE", 1) ' Run Calculator.
I attached this code to a command button just to experiment. Why does it
produce a different value each time? The last 4 clicks produced values of
3500, 2756, 1616 and 3956.

This value is the process id as seen in the task manager. It's normally
always different.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/microsoft.visualbasic.interaction.shell.aspx


mfG
--> stefan <--