Opening a GUI application from a button in another GUI...

firstborn · 10 May 2017 at 18:57

I have a GUI based application and on the click of a button it needs to open another GUI based app - I only have a compile executable of the latter. The latter can maintain focus until it is closed.

Any ideas on how I do this. It needs to be cross-platform. I can do it crudely with "system" but that also opens a console/terminal which I don't want.

I'm coding in C++ using wxWidgets for the GUI.

Thanks

jsmoke · 10 May 2017 at 20:42

Why wouldn't you write seperate apps?

firstborn · 11 May 2017 at 06:07

jsmoke said:
Why wouldn't you write seperate apps?

Not sure what you mean. I'm writing an app that processes output from others that already exist, but in the spec I'm only allowed one point of interaction, therefore my app has to execute 3 existing apps.

jsmoke · 11 May 2017 at 06:42

You said cross-platform, i.e Linux, Windows, Mac.

Look into ShellExecute for Windows.

firstborn · 12 May 2017 at 21:55

I am using wxWidgets for my app and hadn't realised what I wanted to do is already covered... "wxExecute". I need to RTFM properly next time... cheers.