Multiple shell commands

[Pvt-Colli]

I am recreating an old program that i used many moons ago to play jingles etc.
Therefor i need to use shell to run a commandline based mp3 player, which in this case is cmdmp3win.exe

While i know i need to add --shell "cmdmp3win.exe" in the config file or startup sequence i can't get it to work within my program.
Because the complete command need to be like shell "cmdmp3win.exe J021.mp3", where J021 refers to the jingle number.
But it's a different number every time...

But i also need to access another shell command. Can you declate 2 different shell commands at the same time in PC Basic?

[Marrin]

That option is meant to tell which shell to execute, not an arbitrary command. The PC-BASIC documentation uses CMD.EXE as example. So the code in your program would look similar to this:

100 JN$="021"
200 SHELL"cmdmp3win.exe J"+JN$+".mp3"

Then you can als use other programs in other SHELL statements in the same BASIC program.

[Pvt-Colli]

Thanks for your reply.
Tested and indeed, i can get it to work. Wonderfull...

Except something weird is happening:
If i use the shell command in a program, let's say your example, shell won't return to the program until the mp3 has finished playing.
But if i go to shell within pcbasic, then enter cmdmp3win.exe J021.mp3 i get the cursor back immediately and can return to pcbasic with the mp3 still playing in the background.

Like this code:

90 CLS
10000 REM Loop + bee‹ndigen
10005 LOCATE 1,1:PRINT TIME$
10010 A$=INKEY$
10020 IF A$= "q" OR A$="Q" THEN END
10025 IF A$= "p" OR A$="P" THEN SHELL "cmdmp3win.exe Test2.mp3"
10030 GOTO 10000

The program will not update the time until the mp3 has stopped playing if i hit "p"