Help needed! Call external app OnPageLoad() in plugin (1 Viewer)

[pünktchen]

I want to do something like this:

Protected Overrides Sub OnPageLoad()
            MyBase.OnPageLoad()
            System.Diagnostics.ProcessStart("'RELATIVE PATH TO PLUGINS DIRECTORY'\application.exe")
            GUIWindowManager.NeedRefresh()

Is this possible? How about the relative path?

Thanks in advance.

 

[pünktchen]

I've found it out myself. So simple!
Relative path is just "plugins\Windows\application.exe"...

 

[tourettes]

To take performance / user experience into account you shouldn't be doing anything have processing (like creating new processe(s)) in any of the plugin init functions. Instead you should delegate the work to a worker thread and run such stuff asynchronously.

 

[pünktchen]

Instead you should delegate the work to a worker thread and run such stuff asynchronously.

Thanks for answering, but i don't understand a single word of it
It's only a little AutoIt-script that is killed OnGuiDestroy()
I'm a total newbie in VB.net, so don't know how to do it there...

 

[Edalex]

He means that you should Run your app in separate thread to prevent GUI freezing I think.