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Hi! This question has two parts. It involves Visual C++ 6.0 to
create a program that will be run on various types of Windows
platforms.
1. I'm looking for a way to run an executable as a background
process from inside the program. execl() won't allow this, I
believe.
2. I'm looking for a way to stop that same background process
from inside the program.
I haven't found anything yet and any help any of you might give
would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Karin
(Hammer)
one simple way is to pass an HWND as a command line parameter and PostMessage back and forth between windows (the background window can be hidden).
Moving ...
Unfortunately the executable we are using is proprietary
software. I can't modify the handle of this program. It's
already set up to be a windows app.
It wouldn't be so much of an issue if we could trust
everyone not to kill it....
Lookup CreateProcess()
Ok, I'm going to try that and see if it will work with this
App.
Thanks much!
Karin
Yeah, give it a shot and keep us posted...
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or I can help you tear it down.
I am hammer....
CreateProcess worked wonderfully. Of course now I can't get rid of the process I created. It creates two processes:
VCSPAWN.exe and
<program.exe>
VCSPAWN.exe goes away when the program exits but the
other program stays.
I've tried ExitProcess, TerminateThread ( I know to stay away
from TerminateProcess). The only thing I get out of
GetExitCodeProcess and GetExitCodeThread is the number 259.
Doesn't matter what I do. The examples I've seen when using
ExitProcess have been in the 0 - 1 range. Something is very
wrong here.
Help!
Karin