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Is this possible? - 2/27/2008 1:30:53 PM

yfki

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I know I can use the .Run method to hide a window.

Is ther anyway, trick, hack, workaround that could maybe be used to hide the DOS window spawned from the .Exec method.
It is very short-lived, but I would still prefer to either minimize or hide it.

Reason I am not using the .Run method, is I need to use the .WriteLine method to interface with Unix boxes..
Yes I know I can pass in commands from a txt file for pLink but I can't do that for reasons of Unix and Sudo SU Shell interaction.

Set objCmd = WshShell.Exec("%COMSPEC% /C " & pLinkCMD)
objCMD.StdIn.WriteLine("cmd")

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RE: Is this possible? - 2/27/2008 2:02:05 PM

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Have you tried forcing your script to run using cscript.exe instead of wscript.exe....you should find example of that here.

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RE: Is this possible? - 2/27/2008 5:20:40 PM

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Its being run inside of an .HTA

So even if I wanted to use something to change script engine to cscript, that would require access to the WScript object which as we all know .HTA does not allow.
Right now I am just using .Appactivate to bring the Window I prefer to the front. (I am ok with this solution)

However, I would still like to see if there is a workaround to somehow manage to hide the dos window completly.

or

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RE: Is this possible? - 2/28/2008 1:30:55 AM

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Just to answer your initial question, there is no built in way to hide the window if you use .Exec.

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