> > I've never seen an example of code that could find a running process and
>terminate it without relying on the window title search.
>
>If you store _VFP.ProcessID at program start in some file, you can use the
>following code to terminate the process. Just replace _VFP.ProcessID with
>the handle read from that file:
>
> Local lnHandle
> Declare Long OpenProcess in Win32API ;
> Long dwDesiredAccess, ;
> Long bInheritHandle, ;
> Long dwProcessId
> Declare TerminateProcess in Win32API ;
> Long hProcess, ;
> Long uExitCode
> lnHandle = OpenProcess( 1, 0, _VFP.ProcessID )
> TerminateProcess( m.lnHandle, 1 )
Thanks, Christof. Of course, there's the problem of where to place the
file... ;-) (Yes, I've received good solutions for that already.) This
looks very useful.
>If you need to do this based on the EXE name on all platforms including
>Windows NT 4, it's a little bit more work. Here's an article with C++ code
>to do this:
Thanks for taking the time to include the article and the code.
Fortunately, I don't have to support anything before Win 98.
Ken
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