Re: Application object of a running application
"Ajay Shinde" <AjayShinde@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6DFAC166-2FA2-4CC6-AED5-61A9DA1FA518@microsoft.com...
Dear All,
I have developed a MFC dialog based application. In this applicaion I am
detecting running instance of the application by using mutex object.
HANDLE hMutex;
hMutex = CreateMutex(NULL, TRUE, "App.exe");
if(GetLastError() ==ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS)
{ // Mutex exists so there is a running instance of app
hMutex = NULL;
break;
}
However If my application is already running I want to get the application
object and need to call some methods using application
object(CWinApp,CDialog).
Please suggest how do I achieve this.
Thanks in advance.
You can not call another application (or another copy of your application).
What you can do is send a window message to the main window of the other
application. You can find that window with FindWindow, and them use
SendMessage to send a message. If you want to send some data with the
message use the WM_COPYDATA message.
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