Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!nixtor!davidm
From: davidm@nixtor.uucp (David Macklem)
Subject: Terminating another task under Win 3.0
Message-ID: <ji0r0d9oe@nixtor.uucp>
Summary: how do I terminate another windows process?
Keywords: kill, terminate
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 90 15:23:57 GMT
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I'm developing a Windows application that will need to kill another
completely different Windows application and then restart it. The
reason for this is that my application (AppA) is going to change the
other application's (AppB) initialization files and AppB is going to
need to re-initialize itself.

I know how to restart AppB (just a WinExec call with the appropriate
arguments) but I can't figure out how to kill AppB.

I would have thought that it was something like this:

	/* Get a handle to AppB */
	if (hAppB = GetModuleHandle("AppB")){
		/* send AppB a QUIT message */
		PostAppMessage(hAppB, WM_QUIT, NULL, NULL);
		/* wait for AppB to die */
		while (GetModuleHandle("AppB")
			;
	}

Unfortunately, this does not work. (If the arguments to the above
functions are slightly wrong, please forgive me but I'm typing in the
code fragment from memory as the DOS machine is not beside me right
now...)

Thanks for any and all help.
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