Start Process - Use Shell Execute?

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@emre, in Start Process Action, what does Use Shell Execute mean?

Is it simply to execute a file with the default program by file association? i.e. if Firefox is my default Browser, and I set this to True and set the command as a .url file, it will launch with the default program (Firefox)?

Or is it for something else? If not, is there any more to it than that? (i.e. is it blocking? Can it return a result code?)

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Not exactly but you can think it as execute with default program. Couldn’t understand what did you mean with return result. Can you give more details about your need?

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Not really a need, just a curiosity.

Although, if Start Process could accept a Return Result from the process to check if the process completed successfully, that could be useful. For example, in the case of a BAT file or other type of Script or executable, if non-zero is returned from the process and SambaPOS could capture that, we would know something went wrong in the process.

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