C / C++ / MFC

ForNow wrote:

I believe this has to do with sharing window handles between threads

sdancer75 wrote:

As you can see ... What ever I tried I had no success.

void CMainFrame::OnRunExternalApp() {


	SHELLEXECUTEINFO	lpExecInfo;
	PROCESS_INFORMATION processInfo;
	DWORD				dwExitCode;
	HANDLE				hProcess = 0;
	BOOL				bResult;
	LPTSTR				strCmd;





	strCmd = _T("");

	//bResult = StartupApplicationWithShell (_T("LiveUpdate.exe"), (LPTSTR)strCmd,  GetSafeHwnd(), &hProcess);
	bResult = StartupApplicationWithProcess (_T("C:\\Windows\\notepad.exe"), (LPTSTR)strCmd,  &processInfo);

	EnableWindow(FALSE);



	if(bResult) { //(UINT)result > HINSTANCE_ERROR)
	
		//ShowWindow( SW_HIDE );
		//ShowWindow( SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE );
		
	
	    //WaitForSingleObject( hProcess, INFINITE );
		WaitForSingleObject(processInfo.hProcess, INFINITE);
		//WaitForMultipleObjects(1, &processInfo.hThread, TRUE, INFINITE );

	

		   
		//if (!GetExitCodeProcess(hProcess, &dwExitCode)) {
		//	   	AMLOGINFO(_T("LiveUpdate is not terminated normally.")); 
		//}
		if (!GetExitCodeProcess(processInfo.hProcess, &dwExitCode)) {
			   	//failed
		}
		CloseHandle( processInfo.hProcess );
        CloseHandle( processInfo.hThread );
		//CloseHandle(hProcess);
 

	} else {
		
		// failed
	}

	BringWindowToTop();
	EnableWindow(TRUE);
	
	//UpdateWindow();

	//::SetWindowPos( GetSafeHwnd(), HWND_TOP, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_SHOWWINDOW );
}

EnableWindow
SetForegroundWindow
SetActiveWindow
BringWindowToTop

WaitForMultipleObjects