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April 9th, 2014, 07:41 AM
#1
DestroyWindow (basic-newbie)
Hi friends,
why can't i close the calculator (calc.exe) with DestroyWindow?....is something wrong with the code bellow?
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#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
HANDLE h=(void*)0x0007066C; //I get the hex from spy++
printf("Address: %p\n", h);
//HWND hh = FindWindow(NULL, "Calculator"); //with FindWindow (also doesn't work)
HWND hh=(HWND)h;
DestroyWindow (hh);
return 0;
}
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thanks.
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April 9th, 2014, 08:16 AM
#2
Re: DestroyWindow (basic-newbie)
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx
Basically, a thread cannot use DestroyWindow to destroy a window created by a different thread.
Have a look at PostMessage() http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx
with WM_CLOSE message.
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April 9th, 2014, 11:26 AM
#3
Re: DestroyWindow (basic-newbie)
Originally Posted by _rjf
Hi friends,
why can't i close the calculator (calc.exe) with DestroyWindow?....is something wrong with the code bellow?
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As 2kaud already wrote DestroyWindow is not a correct way to cleanly terminate an application.
See what MSDN suggests:
HOWTO: Terminate an Application "Cleanly" in Win32
Victor Nijegorodov
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