Re: CreateProcess and ExitProcess woes

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 16:54

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"JD" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Use CreateProcess(). It returns the thread and process
> IDs for the new process. You can then use EnumWindows()
> to look for all windows belonging to that process. Inside
> the callback function for EnumWindows(), you can use
> GetWindowThreadProcessId() to get the process ID for
> a given window, compare it to the process ID of the original
> process spawned, and if they match then use SendMessage()
> to send a WM_CLOSE message to each window.

The only thing to be careful of is if the process has no windows at all.  In
which case, you'll just have to use TerminateProcess() since you have no
other way to communicate with the process to have to terminate itself more
gracefully.  At least that I know of.


Gambit

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