Hi Ed,

Just an update... I ending up using TerminateProcess() to close down the app started with CreateProcess(). That seems to work well for me in this case. I did use much of your code to get CreateProcess() to do what I needed. Thanks for putting the code in the FAQ. I did find that I needed the window reference for SendMessage() to shut down the app where as in TerminateProcess() I just passed the process handle that I got from CreateProcess(). Seems to work just fine....

Thanks alot for your help

>>Hi Ed,
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>>Thanks for the reply. I looked for SendMessage() in the help file but there is no listing for it. Is that an API call? Where can I find info on it? The program is a DDE server that doesn't support DDE calls to itself so it has to be something else.
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>SendMessage() is a Win32 API call that sends a standard message to a specific Window; there are samples of how to use it in various entries in the FAQ under Win32 and Other AIs, mostly stuff by George Tasker. There have been several threads about this in the past several months.
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>API_APPRUN can also shut down anything that it starts up, but it uses TerminateProcess() to do this, and that's a messy shutdown - it simply blows away the process and doesn't allow it to try to initiate an orderly shutdown like SendMessage() might allow using a WM_CLOSE message. However, terminateProcess() always works, regardless of the type of app running,and regardless of whether the app is capable of processing standard Windows messages (great for killing things that get locked up in an infinite loop, for example.)
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>>Thanks
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>>>>How do I shut down a program started with the run command?
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>>>Rather than using RUN, use my API_APPRUN class, which has a method to kill what it launches (in a messy fashion.) If it's a WinApp, you'd best investigate using SendMessage() to get it to shut down.
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>>>>Thanks