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Closing a group of applications in windows Ce

Hi all,

I have a bunch of applications running under Windows CE 5.0
I would like to develop an application that will automatically close (gracefully) these applications before continuing to do something.
I am considering getting the handles of each of these files, and then use TerminateProcess to close each one.
Is this graceful? Will it instruct the application to close before deciding to kill the task?
If not is there a better solution?

Thanks,

James

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alexey_gusev

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Sounds more sensible....
What is the best way to do this?

alexey_gusev

you could use EnuWindows() function to get iterated through all top-level windows, collect the handles and window titles (and window classes) - just like you'd see in Spy utility, then you select the desired window and call

SendMessage(hWnd,WM_CLOSE,0,0)

or

PostMessage(hWnd,WM_CLOSE,0,0)

Member_2_99151

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Excellent! Thanks for all the help.
Best regards,
James

alexey_gusev

in the prev post: I meant of course EnumWindows()

Member_2_99151

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:-) Thanks

Member_2_99151

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Me again!

I have just discovered another simple way of doing this:

Process proc = Process.GetProcessById(ProcessID);
proc.CloseMainWindow();

This appears to be a nice simple .NET wrapper!

Best regards,

James

alexey_gusev

while it works, that is :)

Member_2_99151

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I hope you're not implying that the .NET libraries are not wonderful... hee hee...

alexey_gusev

under Windows Mobile? they're HORRID :)