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Visual Basic shell command or run

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Ok i want to beable to use the shell command to start gens.exe (sega emulator) and load a game automaticly all from one line of code. Edog

Name: Chi Happens
Date: November 30, 2006 at 04:44:46 Pacific

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Use the Win32 API called ShellExecute: Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long Const SW_SHOW = 5 ShellExecute 0,"OPEN","gens.exe","gamename","C:\Path To gens.exe", SW_SHOW Enjoy, Chi Happens They mostly come at night...mostly.

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