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maybe in your dll you need to have an function that you can call that will check your app. Pass a message to the app and have the app send a message back with it's status.
I guess you need to ask your self.
1. How is this dll going to be loaded. From another application or your main app?
2. What is it that you are monitoring. Whether the main app is still running?
3. What is the purpose of the dll? Will it tell me something about the main app that will make it (the dll) do something else?
4. Is the main app something you wrote or someone else wrote?
Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com
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So I have 3 Apps:
The first App is the MainApp which loads the DLL
The second "App" is the DLL which montiors the third App
The third App is some app which gets monitored by the DLL
While all apps are still running the DLL monitors the third App. And when the third App for e.g. calls WM_PAINT the Main App should get notified by the DLL.
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Much clearer. What you want to do is create a hook in your dll, so that you can monitor any messages that are being sent to that app. There are a ton of articles on window hooks.
Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com
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Any interprocess communication technique will do. I would recommend using a memory-mapped file or thread messages, but that's up to you. For a list of effective IPC mechanisms refer to J.Richter's "Programming Windows", it's worth reading anyway.
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I'm having a problem passing a structure with WM_COPYDATA. Can anyone give an example of how to do this on the sending side an the receiving side?
Thanks
Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com
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How are you currently doing it? Are you passing the address of your struct in the lpData member of the COPYDATASTRUCT?
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yes. Here is my function that send the message from a thread I created:
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typedef struct tagCONNSTATUS {<br />
int nConnID;<br />
CString sThreadID;<br />
CString sConnStatus;<br />
}CONNSTATUS;<br />
CONNSTATUS ConnStatus;<br />
<br />
ConnStatus.nConnID = ConnID;<br />
ConnStatus.sThreadID = thdID;<br />
ConnStatus.sConnStatus = "Connected";<br />
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COPYDATASTRUCT myData;<br />
myData.dwData = 0;<br />
myData.cbData = sizeof(ConnStatus);<br />
myData.lpData = &ConnStatus;<br />
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if (!SendMessage(myHandle->m_hWnd, WM_COPYDATA, 0, (LPARAM)&myData))<br />
MessageBox(NULL, "Error Posting Connection Message", "Error on PostMessage", MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);<br />
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Here is the function that receives the message in my main application:
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BOOL CLAMsgSwDlg::OnCopyData(CWnd* pWnd, COPYDATASTRUCT* pCopyDataStruct)<br />
{<br />
typedef struct tagCONNSTATUS {<br />
int nConnID;<br />
CString sThreadID;<br />
CString sConnStatus;<br />
}CONNSTATUS;<br />
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(DWORD)((CONNSTATUS*)(pCopyDataStruct->lpData))->nConnID;<br />
(LPCSTR)((CONNSTATUS*)(pCopyDataStruct->lpData))->sThreadID;<br />
(LPCSTR)((CONNSTATUS*)(pCopyDataStruct->lpData))->sConnStatus;<br />
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CONNSTATUS ConnStatus;<br />
AfxMessageBox(ConnStatus.sConnStatus);<br />
AfxMessageBox(ConnStatus.sThreadID);<br />
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return 1;<br />
}<br />
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When my message boxes pop up they show nothing.
Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com
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Tom Wright wrote:
typedef struct tagCONNSTATUS {
int nConnID;
CString sThreadID;
CString sConnStatus;
}CONNSTATUS;
CONNSTATUS ConnStatus;
AFAIK the problem is with the CStrings. They contain pointers to the actual string data, and you can not pass pointers across process boundaries as the pointers will have no meaning to the recieving process.
You have to build your structure in such a way that it does not contain any pointers.
For example:
typedef struct tagCONNSTATUS {
int nConnID;
TCHAR sThreadID[128];
TCHAR sConnStatus[128];
} CONNSTATUS;
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"Obviously ??? You're definitely a superstar!!!" mYkel - 21 Jun '04
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Yeah I'm still getting nothing. I've tried it where I'm passing a test string from a CString object and that worked. However I cannot get a structure to pass coreectly. Not sure what I have set wrong.
Thanks for the help anyway. I'll keep plugging a long.
Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com
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The concept is not difficult. All it does is copy cbData bytes from the memory at lpData.
If you want to see a working example, take a look at http://www.codeproject.com/tools/imageviewer.asp[^]. The sending code is in the ViewerDll project; ImageView function. The receiving code is in the ViewerApp project; OnCopyData function.
I am willing to provide more help if you need it, just ask.
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"Obviously ??? You're definitely a superstar!!!" mYkel - 21 Jun '04
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I figured it out. I needed to do a memcpy on the receving side. Once I did that I was able to receive all the data in my struct.
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typedef struct tagCONNSTATUS {<br />
int nConnID;<br />
TCHAR sThreadID[128];<br />
TCHAR sConnStatus[128];<br />
}CONNSTATUS;<br />
<br />
CONNSTATUS ConnStatus;<br />
memcpy(&ConnStatus, pCopyDataStruct->lpData, sizeof(ConnStatus));<br />
m_lClientConn.SetItemText(ConnStatus.nConnID, 3, ConnStatus.sConnStatus);<br />
Thanks for the help.
Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com
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I'm trying to insert a status bar control inside a the activex window in OnCreate. It only appears if i resize the window, also how can i change it from being indented(Pushed In) i would like it closer to what the Mainframe window looks like.
Thanks
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Maybe I'm totally wrong here but wouldn't it be better off to create your status bar in the OnInitdialog()?
I'm confused are you trying to create and activex control that has a MDI window in it, and you want a status bar on the child windows? Or are you creating an activex control with a dialog window in it and are placing it in a MDI app, and you want a status bar in the dailog box / activex control?
Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com
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Rather than creating CStatusBar in OnCreate function Better to Create OnPaint Function .. I hope it will work .. becos every time u resize or any changes on window it calls to onpaint function..
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Hello,
I was wondering if there is any other way of setting the text in a static control to bold - except constructing my own font?
Thanks!
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in resource editor, you can change the font of the entire controls in a dialog.
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Well,
the problem is that I don't want to change the font for the entire dialog but for that specific static control 
Thanks for the help anyway 
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Deian wrote:
I was wondering if there is any other way of setting the text in a static control to bold
Bold is a font too, and there is no ready made method to make something change the font, I guess you need to create the font and attach the new font.
Basically its how everything works, except that a default font is attached to it.
-prakash
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Hello guys, I've a little bomb in my hands. I have some code that should create a CDialog and start a downloader thread (wich is inside the CDialog derived class). When the thread finishes, I have to finish the CDialog also, and I'm currently using a pointer to the same CDialog and calling the "EndDialog" function through the pointer. The fact is that, only with WinXP, sometimes this causes a runtime error. I don't know exactly what is causing this, and I know it's not the best way to do that, but I just lack the time to rewrite this now.
Thanx!
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Thanks a lot man. A simple "SendMessage" solved the problem, at the end of the thread.
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We had a similar issue in that we needed to minimize, restore, or close the app from another application. So I wrote a DLL that had this section of code that has to this day worked great. I pass the name of the window that I want closed and it does the rest.
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HWND hWnd;<br />
LRESULT lpResult;<br />
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hWnd = FindWindow(NULL, winName);<br />
if (hWnd == NULL)<br />
{<br />
return 0;<br />
}<br />
lpResult = DefWindowProc(hWnd, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_CLOSE, NULL);<br />
if (lpResult == NULL) return 0;<br />
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Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com
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Passing the window title isn't quite safe as there can be other windows with this name, e.g. other instances of the app.
To be safe against coincidences, it's much better to use HWND.
PS. This is one thing why I respect learning pure API first, then MFC or other interface libraries, and encourage my brother to do so  . You know exactly what you do and what is behind the MFC classes.
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That is true AND false
I've been learning pure API since I started programming, and using libs like MFC when I need things up and running fast. The fact is, there is no way to know what is going on with MFC because the documentation LIES, the source code they provide LIES and there are dozens of GOTOs (!!!) inside it! Please guys, raise a hand the ones who use GOTOs (and don't work at Microsoft...).
Yes, I'm a little bit disturbed, but that's the result after working since long date with mfc... (the Microsoft Frustration Classes)
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Ah...am I missing somthing here or do I not see that FindWindow returns an HWND????
If you really wanna make sure you have the right window you would have to know the window handle first and pass that to your app. or enum all the windows and decide from that which one is the right window. Other than that if you had 2 internet explorers up looking at the same website then you would not know which one to choose except by taking a look at the z-order and trying to determine which one has been up longer.
Fortunatly we know the windows title and know that they are unique, so this is why we can do a findwindow and close them the way I suggested.
Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com
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