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Thanks very much, what i did eventually was to pass the array
(which is actually a bitmap) through the Clipboard, first i
check if it's open by the other application, if not, i lock it,
(the clipboard i mean) read/write from it, and release it.

It's working OK.

Thanks.


Hans Galema <dontusethis@dontusethis.nl> wrote:
>Ramy wrote:
>
>> I need to write 2 applications which runs at the same time on the
>> computer (Windows-2000) and share same piece of memory for 
>> exchanging data between each other 
>
>> Can i allocate an array like this - 
>> 
>> float array[500][400];
>
>Yes.
>
>> then write it's address ( &array[0][0] ) and size (500x400) in
>> a file, so the other application can read the file and access
>> the array by using the pointer and the size from this file?
>
>No.
>
>Each application has its own addressspace.
>
>But what you want is possible in a different way. Have a look
>in the Win32 help for SharedMemory, FileMapping and CreateFileMapping().
>
>Hans.