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C++ Passing Parameters to Silent Program

In a prior question I asked how to make the console window not show up in a Windows application and I was told to replace void main() with int __stdcall WinMain(), which worked perfectly. But now I wish to pass this silent program parameters when I execute the program from an external program and I am unsure of how I would do this with this function.

Previous Question: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24330131/C-Hiding-Console-Window-of-Application.html

Can anyone help me?

JohnGaby

WinMain can also have parameters which include the command line:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633559(VS.85).aspx

Cyber-Dragon

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I don't quite understand this:
lpCmdLine
[in] Pointer to a null-terminated string specifying the command line for the application, excluding the program name. To retrieve the entire command line, use the GetCommandLine function.

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evilrix

>> If you have an ANSI project you may use the following function instead.
Yup, very true... I probably should have pointed this out. Thanks Alex.

itsmeandnobodyelse

>>>> I probably should have pointed this out.

I actually looked first for the CommandLineToArgvA in WINAPI and was puzzled that it doesn't exist. And writing the code above took more time than I thought ;-)

evilrix

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