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In article <908@tau.sm.luth.se> Karl-Gunnar Hultland <d87-khd@tau.luth.se> writes:
> In my case the MAIN program supports being launched either from WB or CLI
> which isn't very difficult 'cause I dont use stdio or cli-arguments, but
> the sub-programs being "launched" from the MAIN (and only from the main)
> shouldn't have to bother about WB or CLI. All I want to is to start them,
> send them a message containing the address of the costomscreen I use,
> and when they exit let the MAIN program do the unloading.

Sounds good. I'd recommend keeping all the WBstartup stuff anyway, and in
main() look for a magic word *beyond* the normal WBStartup message. That
way if the child programs get started up under another environment by
accident they won't kill the system.

> In my case i could go wild, but since your launch package does,almost,
> all the work I'll use it. THe irritating part is that I'll have to allocate
> and send an extra message to the child, with the address to the screen.

Just modify my launch program to send an extra two LONGs, one being a magic
word to indicate it's a "special environment" launch (like, if the first
word after WBStartup is "0xFEEDFACE"), and the other a pointer to your magic
stuff. One message, no problems.

> Thanks anyway for you launch program.

Welcome.

> ps. That pic. in your .sig is that to be Australia?

Yep, it be Oz.
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