Re: [GD-Windows] Terminating a program

[brian s. <bri...@gm...>]

Like I said, you have plenty of other options for IPC. Named event, create =
a=20
pipe, etc. But since his code was already using messages, switching to a=20
custom message seemed it would be fastest for Eero to implement.

--brian

On 8/1/05, Root, Konstantin <kr...@fu...> wrote:
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> 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:
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> > 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
>=20
> 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.
> >
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> 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.
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> (I have previously terminated programs on this setup (Nvidia +
> WindowsXP) and I have not noticed any ill effects)
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> Thanks for your and Jon's comments
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> Eero
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> PS. I first sent this using wrong address, moderator please kill
> that message...
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