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Modal Application Window

Hi all,

I'm trying to execute a modal application window in a VC++ .NET project.

The project is basically a form which is used to launch various word processors in Windows; Notepad, Wordpad etc.

I'm having an extremely difficult time trying to find a way to make the Wordpad application window to be modal. (to avoid multiple copies to be opened)

Here's a snippet of code which is part of a menu option:

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  1. {
  2.   STARTUPINFO  si;
  3.   PROCESS_INFORMATION  pi;
  4.  
  5.   CreateProcess(NULL, "Write.exe", NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0,  NULL, NULL, &si, &pi);
  6.  
  7.  
  8.  
  9.  WaitForSingleObject( pi.hProcess, INFINITE );
  10.  
  11.  CloseHandle( pi.hProcess );
  12.  CloseHandle( pi.hThread );
  13. }
  14.  
I'll appreciate any help on this.
Apr 3 '07 #1
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can someone tell me if it could be done at least?
Apr 5 '07 #2
sicarie
4,677 Expert Mod 4TB
Are you trying to prevent Windows from opening WordPad, or your program from opening it again? I'm not sure you can block Windows from opening it, unless you ran a script that polled every few second to check if it was open and then killed it...
Apr 5 '07 #3

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