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Re: IPC, using Application->OnMessage

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:01
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Marc wrote:

>This is OK as the two processes will run on the same computer.
>If not what alternative would you recommend? Using IP messaging ?

Named Pipes are good if you need to send data.
Otherwise Named Mutex or Event for simple signaling.
See:
	CreateNamedPipe

	CreateEvent
	OpenEvent

	CreateMutex
	OpenMutex

	CreateSemaphore
	OpenSemaphore

>I helped myself right now in looking if the Msg.message + Msg.time is 
>different before continuing... not very nice, but it helps.

You might have 2 different messages, one for each process.
Each process looks only for the other process' message, not it's own.
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