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You can restart by setting all things back to how they were at the beginning 
and running from where you started.

If what you want is to load a new copy of the program and run that then one 
way is to call CreateProcess to start that new copy, specify a parameter on 
the command line which tells the program that it is a restart, perhaps 
giving the HWND of the main window so that the new copy can, once it 
initializes, place its windows at the same place and send a message to the 
original which the original will use as a command to end.

.  Ed

> bar wrote in message
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> Hope everybody well.
>
> I want to have a button(Restart exe) on one of my program.
> Is there any way to restart the application.
> Thanks for pointer.

"Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket> wrote in message 
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> perhaps giving the HWND of the main window so that the new copy
> can, once it initializes, place its windows at the same place and send
> a message to the original which the original will use as a command to end.

Alternatively, pass the first instance's process ID as a parameter to the 
second instance so it can wait for the first instance to full exit before 
then continuing with its own work.  Then the first instance can exit itself 
once the new process has been created.  No sending messages needed.


Gambit 

smells like you want to kill the application
first, and _then_ restart it. if so, make sure you
shoot it down completely with no traces left,
and re-load it from scratch. Clean up all the
unique resources, free up as much memory as
possible, release all the system references,
reset any hardware in hand, and ... hope for
the best.
Why do you want to restart it?
the way my applications respond to a situation
when they have to be restarted is strictly rebooting
the system, otherwise you admit your own fault.

"Boba" <Boba@somewhere.world> wrote:

>Why do you want to restart it?

In *my* case, because the logged-in user is changing. The application
has a login screen displayed before anything else, and when the program
exits, that's when the user is logged out.

So, one of my apps does have a restart button on it, in debug mode, so I
can quickly log out and come back in as a different user for testing
purposes.

>the way my applications respond to a situation
>when they have to be restarted is strictly rebooting
>the system, otherwise you admit your own fault.

Sneaky. I shall have to remember that - no more exception throwing, just
ExitWindowsEx().

Alan Bellingham
-- 
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"Alan Bellingham" <alan@lspace.org> wrote in message 
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> "Boba" <Boba@somewhere.world> wrote:
>
>>the way my applications respond to a situation
>>when they have to be restarted is strictly rebooting
>>the system, otherwise you admit your own fault.
>
> Sneaky. I shall have to remember that - no more exception throwing, just
> ExitWindowsEx().
>

Pretty much the way Windows used to handle errors.

-- 
Bruce