Subj : Re: CreateProcess
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : mike
Date : Thu Jun 17 2004 10:29 pm

> If you want to shut it down prematurely you should start by asking
> yourself why you need to do that and why you are launching that
> program when you did not want it to do what it is supposed to do.

i launch it to do some calculations and to update an XML file. it does all
this ok and exits as expected. the problem is after about 7 times this
happens i get an error from the CreateProcess () and the error code is 1813.
i don't understand why.

> If you absolutely must shut it down, send a WM_CLOSE message to each
> of its top level windows.  TerminateProcess is only for an emergency
> shutdown of the program and does not clean up by unloading DLL's and
> freeing all resources.  Especially if using an OS from the Windows
> 95/98/ME tree, failing to unload and free those items can have a bad
> effect on the operating system.

this makes sense, but the problem is that the application i launch is not a
GUI application and doesn't process the WM_CLOSE message. it's a console
app. i only terminate it when i close my GUI so this won't be too bad.

aloha,
mike

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