Re: Terminating a program

Like I said, you have plenty of other options for IPC. Named event, create a 
pipe, etc. But since his code was already using messages, switching to a 
custom message seemed it would be fastest for Eero to implement.

--brian

On 8/1/05, Root, Konstantin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Why not just create named event that will be set by terminator program
> and checked by your full screen application?
> 
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> brian sharon wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like you might be better off not using WM_CLOSE, since the OS
> is going to complain if you ignore it for too long. But you have plenty
> 
> of other options if you want to handle communications between two apps
> you control. Easiest thing is to use RegisterWindowMessage() to get a
> unique message value for your own custom quit message, and then the
> child application could post WM_CLOSE to itself whenever it receives
> that custom quit message from the launcher app.
> >
> 
> 
> Results from this seem very promising. I did add TerminateProcess as the
> fallback, but so far (after doing one fix to the graphical program), I
> have not yet seen it triggered.
> 
> (I have previously terminated programs on this setup (Nvidia +
> WindowsXP) and I have not noticed any ill effects)
> 
> Thanks for your and Jon's comments
> 
> 
> Eero
> 
> PS. I first sent this using wrong address, moderator please kill
> that message...
> 
> 
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