ATL / WTL / STL

charlieg wrote:

it's returning true yet with an invalid handle.

charlieg wrote:

I don't know how I could misread that.

while TRUE
    if applicationFlag is TRUE
    then
        start external application
        set applicationFlag FALSE
    end if
    sleep for some seconds
end while 

STARTUPINFO si = { sizeof(si) };
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
BOOL bOk = CreateProcess(
		_T("C:\\Windows\\system32\\notepad.exe"),
		NULL,
		NULL,
		NULL,
		FALSE,
		0,
		NULL,
		NULL,
		&si,
		&pi
		);
if (bOk)
{
	CloseHandle(pi.hThread); // We don't need so don't leak it!
	WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE);
	CloseHandle(pi.hProcess); // We're finished with it.

	MessageBox(NULL, _T("Finished"), _T("Create and wait"), MB_OK);
}

Jim Fell wrote:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/USBView-sample-application-e3241039

typedef std::multimap<int,int> MyMap;
MyMap global_map;

void my_func()
{
    // We create a new map instance and we swap its contents with the other "big" container instance.
    // This swap operation replaces the pointers inside the two containers so after the swap() the
    // global_map contains the small newly allocated blocks, and empty_map contains the big mem blocks
    // previously owned by global_map. Note: when empty_map runs out of scope it releases the big block.
    // This trick works with other stl container types too.
    MyMap empty_map;
    empty_map.swap(global_map);
}