[Qt-interest] How to use a button click and open up Windows commandprompt

[Nechypurenko, Andrey (GE Healthcare)]

>From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com
[mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Wilson Pok
>Sent: Montag, 14. September 2009 13:11
>To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
>Subject: [Qt-interest] How to use a button click and open up Windows
commandprompt
>
>
>#include <windows.h>
>#include <tchar.h>
>#include <iostream>
> 
>using namespace std;
> 
>void button_click()
>{
>    HINSTANCE hInst = ShellExecute(0, 
>    "open", // Operation to perform
>    "cmd.exe", // Application name
>    "-d tes123", // Additional parameters
>    0, // Default directory
>    SW_SHOW);
>    return 0;
>}
> 
> 
>This code can work in MS Visual Studio. Now that I am 
>using QT is there anyway I can do the same? open a 
>windows command prompt window with some parameters
>I created a QT GUI project and put the same code in 
>for button click action. It wont work anymore.

I do not see any reasons why the code sample above wont 
work with Qt. However it is not portable. 
You can take a look at QProcess to achieve the same 
funcitonality: 
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qprocess.html#details