Re: [GD-Windows] Silent DirectX Installation

[Mat N. \(BUNGIE\) <Mat...@mi...>]

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You should be able to use ShellExecuteEx with SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS =
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From: gam...@li... on behalf of =
Research
Sent: Thu 8/10/2006 7:15 PM
To: Gam...@li...
Subject: [GD-Windows] Silent DirectX Installation



Hi,
According to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=3D/library/en-us/direct=
x9_c/Simplifying_Game_Installation.asp
it is recommended to do a silent install of DirectX, but we're having
trouble making this work.

Our game doesn't need to be installed, so we're running stright from CD.
When the CD is inserted, or the application launched, a "launcher" =
dialog is
displayed. If the player clicks "play", then we are calling:

ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "DirectX/dxsetup.exe", "/silent", NULL,
SW_SHOWNORMAL);

But this call doesn't seem to block and returns immediately, so if the
player didn't already have the latest DX installed, it would be partway
through installation when the game launched and of course this doesn't =
work.

Is there a way or API to run a program and block until it finishes?

Thanks,
Brett Bibby
GameBrains


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