Digital Workshop

In the app I'm building (Opus 5.0) one or more external apps, chosen by the user from a menu, will need to be launched in succession. Most of these are interactive and they will each require variable time to complete. It is important that they are run sequentially, that is, one completes before the next begins.

Within DemoShield, which we had been using until recently, there was a "Wait until application finishes" option within the Launch part of an action.

Is there any equivalent undocumented property in Opus?

Otherwise it would presumably require something like an ExecuteAndWait API call - well documented in VB script, but has anyone had any experience of doing this through Opus script? Many thanks.

This is not currently possible in Opus, I will pass it on to our development team for future consideration.

Brenden Knifton

It may be possible if you have control of the external apps as well.
Have the external app write to the registry just before quiting. Opus can be checking the registry, thereby knowing when the app is finished.

Yes, I agree with SWAN it may be possible if you have full control of the apps you want to launch.

Cheers
German

These apps are all .msi installations, so in the first instance I can poll the registry for the new uninstall keys. Unfortunately this may have some pitfalls (some installs do further actions after the key is written). In the longer term we will probably write an external .exe to control these more precicely - unless of course DW beats us to it!