Thread: Using CreateFileMapping - Displaying Data

Hello,

I am trying to pass data from one active process to another, so far I have managed to get both processes to communicate with each other however the message that is shown by the second process does not resemble the message from the first process.

I have a feeling it has something to do with the conversions i'm using but for the life of me I can't work out where the problem lies.

I have added the code for the Producer (Create/Sends data) and the Consumer (Reads/Displays) as well as a screenshot of the debugger in action.

The code is based on the sample given just below:

Creating Named Shared Memory (Windows)



Producer:

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>


//File header definitions
#define IDM_FILE_ROLLDICE 1
#define IDM_FILE_QUIT 2
#define BUF_SIZE 256

TCHAR szName[]=TEXT("Global\\MyFileMappingObject");
    TCHAR szMsg[]=TEXT("Message from first process!");

void AddMenus(HWND);
LRESULT CALLBACK WindowFunc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

////Standard windows stuff - omitted to save space.

//////////////////////
// WINDOWS FUNCTION //
//////////////////////
LRESULT CALLBACK WindowFunc(HWND hMainWindow, UINT message, 
                            WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    WCHAR buffer[256];
    LPCWSTR pBuf;

    struct DiceData storage;
    HANDLE hMapFile;

    switch(message)    
    {
    case WM_CREATE:
        {

            // Create Menus
            AddMenus(hMainWindow);
        }

        break;
    case WM_COMMAND:
        // Intercept menu choices
        switch(LOWORD(wParam))
        {
        case IDM_FILE_ROLLDICE:
            {
                //Roll dice and store results in variable
                //storage = RollDice();

                ////Copy results to buffer
                //swprintf(buffer,255,L"Dice 1: %d, Dice 2: %d",storage.dice1,storage.dice2);

                ////Show via message box
                //MessageBox(hMainWindow,buffer,L"Dice Result",MB_OK);

                hMapFile = CreateFileMapping(
                 (HANDLE)0xFFFFFFFF,    // use paging file
                 NULL,                    // default security 
                 PAGE_READWRITE,          // read/write access
                 0,                       // maximum object size (high-order DWORD) 
                 BUF_SIZE,                // maximum object size (low-order DWORD)  
                 szName);                 // name of mapping object

   if (hMapFile == NULL) 
   { 
      MessageBox(hMainWindow,L"Could not create file mapping object",L"Error",NULL);
      return 1;
   }
   pBuf = (LPCWSTR) MapViewOfFile(hMapFile,   // handle to map object
                        FILE_MAP_ALL_ACCESS, // read/write permission
                        0,                   
                        0,                   
                        BUF_SIZE);           

   if (pBuf == NULL) 
   { 
      MessageBox(hMainWindow,L"Could not map view of file",L"Error",NULL);

       CloseHandle(hMapFile);

      return 1;
   }


   CopyMemory((PVOID)pBuf, szMsg, (_tcslen(szMsg) * sizeof(TCHAR)));
    _getch();

   //UnmapViewOfFile(pBuf);

   //CloseHandle(hMapFile);

            }
            break;

        case IDM_FILE_QUIT:
            SendMessage(hMainWindow, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0);
            break;
        }
        break;

    case WM_DESTROY:
        PostQuitMessage(0);
        break;
    }
    return DefWindowProc(hMainWindow, message, wParam, lParam);
}

//
//Setup menus
//

Consumer:

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

//File header definitions
#define IDM_FILE_QUIT 1
#define IDM_FILE_POLL 2

#define BUF_SIZE 256
TCHAR szName[]=TEXT("Global\\MyFileMappingObject");


//Prototypes
void AddMenus(HWND);
LRESULT CALLBACK WindowFunc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

//More standard windows creation, again omitted.

//////////////////////
// WINDOWS FUNCTION //
//////////////////////
LRESULT CALLBACK WindowFunc(HWND hMainWindow, UINT message, 
                            WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{


    HANDLE hMapFile;
    LPCWSTR pBuf;

    switch(message)    
    {
    case WM_CREATE:
        {

            // Create Menus
            AddMenus(hMainWindow);
            break;
        }

    case WM_COMMAND:
        {
            // Intercept menu choices
            switch(LOWORD(wParam))
            {
            case IDM_FILE_POLL:
                {
                    hMapFile = OpenFileMapping(
                        FILE_MAP_ALL_ACCESS,   // read/write access
                        FALSE,                 // do not inherit the name
                        szName);               // name of mapping object 

                    if (hMapFile == NULL) 
                    { 
                        MessageBox(hMainWindow,L"Could not open file mapping object",L"Error",NULL);
                        return 1;
                    } 

                    pBuf = (LPCWSTR) MapViewOfFile(hMapFile, // handle to map object
                        FILE_MAP_ALL_ACCESS,  // read/write permission
                        0,                    
                        0,                    
                        BUF_SIZE);                   

                    if (pBuf == NULL) 
                    { 
                        MessageBox(hMainWindow,L"Could not map view of file",L"Error",NULL); 

                        CloseHandle(hMapFile);

                        return 1;
                    }

                    MessageBox(NULL, pBuf, TEXT("Process2"), MB_OK);

                    UnmapViewOfFile(pBuf);

                    CloseHandle(hMapFile);

                    break;
                }




            case IDM_FILE_QUIT:
                SendMessage(hMainWindow, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0);
                break;
            }
            break;
        }

    case WM_DESTROY:
        {
            PostQuitMessage(0);
            break;
        }
    }
    return DefWindowProc(hMainWindow, message, wParam, lParam);
}

//
//Setup menus
//

Debugger:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n...Untitled-3.jpg


Thank you for the help!

Is "M" also all you see in the message box? You seem to be using wide chars consistently throughout, so that seems unlikely to be a problem. Can you walk through the file from the consumer side? (I.e., if you print out pBuf[1], pBuf[2], etc., what do you get?)

The message box shows the "Process2" caption fine, i've stepped through it in the debugger and it's showing the value of pBuf to be "0x000b0000".

I'm sorry I don't understand what you mean by "(I.e., if you print out pBuf[1], pBuf[2], etc., what do you get?)", it's not an array.

Sorry for my lack of understanding, I primarily use C#.

If you close the "file" in the producer, does that help?