How to open exe from within irrlicht?

[MikeR]

I have a button: Open that I would like to open another program from within an irrlicht app. I have been searching the web, but can't figure out how to code it.

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class MyEventReceiver : public IEventReceiver{public:	virtual bool OnEvent(SEvent event)	{		if (event.EventType == EET_GUI_EVENT)		{			s32 id = event.GUIEvent.Caller->getID();			IGUIEnvironment* env = device->getGUIEnvironment();
            switch(event.GUIEvent.EventType)
            {
case EGET_BUTTON_CLICKED:
              if (id == 101)
              {
                 device->OpenDevice(myOtherApp.exe);
                 return true;
              }

(code is example only)
Would this code work? or is there another way?

[Guest]

spawnlp

[Didine]

system("your_app.exe");

[WToma]

I think it is very system specific. Under windows, see ShellExecuce and ShellExecuceEx API functions.
Toma

[MikeR]

I added: system("myApp.exe"); and it compiles fine, but won't open.
I may have to go a different route.
(the exe is where it's supposed to be.)

Fixed and working. I was linking wrong. system("folder\\myApp.exe"); works great.