Wait before ShellExecute is carried out?

Question

I have a hopefully quick question: Is it possible to delay execution of ShellExecute a little bit?

I have an application with autoupdater. After it downloads all necess

Answer 1

This routine is some utils code in our game engine. It can run an executable and optionally wait for it to exit. It will return its exit code:

function TSvUtils.FileExecute(ahWnd: Cardinal; const aFileName, aParams, aStartDir: string; aShowCmd: Integer; aWait: Boolean): Integer;
var
  Info: TShellExecuteInfo;
  ExitCode: DWORD;
begin

  Result := -1;
  FillChar(Info, SizeOf(Info), 0);
  Info.cbSize := SizeOf(TShellExecuteInfo);
  with Info do begin
    fMask := SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS;
    Wnd := ahWnd;
    lpFile := PChar(aFileName);
    lpParameters := PChar(aParams);
    lpDirectory := PChar(aStartDir);
    nShow := aShowCmd;
  end;

  if ShellExecuteEx(@Info) then
  begin
    if aWait then
    begin
      repeat
        Sleep(1);
        Application.ProcessMessages;
        GetExitCodeProcess(Info.hProcess, ExitCode);
      until (ExitCode <> STILL_ACTIVE) or Application.Terminated;
      CloseHandle(Info.hProcess);
      Result := ExitCode;
    end;
  end
end;

Here is some code that can check to see if a process exists. So... current app calls the updater and terminates. The updater can check to see if old app has terminated and do it's thing (rename, update, delete, etc):

function TSvUtils.ProcessExists(const aExeFileName: string; aBringToForgound: Boolean=False): Boolean;
var
  ContinueLoop: BOOL;
  FSnapshotHandle: THandle;
  FProcessEntry32: TProcessEntry32;
begin

  FSnapshotHandle := CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS, 0);
  FProcessEntry32.dwSize := SizeOf(FProcessEntry32);
  ContinueLoop := Process32First(FSnapshotHandle, FProcessEntry32);
  Result := False;
  while Integer(ContinueLoop) <> 0 do
  begin
    if ((UpperCase(ExtractFileName(FProcessEntry32.szExeFile)) =
      UpperCase(aExeFileName)) or (UpperCase(FProcessEntry32.szExeFile) =
      UpperCase(aExeFileName))) then
    begin
      if aBringToForgound then
        EnumWindows(@BringToForgroundEnumProcess, FProcessEntry32.th32ProcessID);
      Result := True;
    end;
    ContinueLoop := Process32Next(FSnapshotHandle, FProcessEntry32);
  end;
  CloseHandle(FSnapshotHandle);
end;