LoadLibraryEx for EXE

[Semen Matusovski]

Hi, folks --
LoadLibraryEx "maps a specified executable module into the address space of the calling process. The executable module can be a .DLL or an .EXE file".
With DLL all is clear (GetProcAddr, Call Dword ...)
Does anybody knows, is it possible to start EXE by such way ?
If yes, how ?

[Eric Pearson]

As I understand it, it is possible to run EXPORTed functions from a 32-bit EXE in that way, just as you would run them from a DLL file, but it is not a method of running an EXE, per se.

(Hmmm... I wonder what would happen if you started a thread and executed an EXE's WinMain function in that way...?)

-- Eric

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[Semen Matusovski]

Eric --
I want to "talk" with another Exe (for example, Word) through messages.
Sometimes, it's necessary to send addresses of structures or to add additional subclass procedure.
With two processes this way is impossible.
Yes, I think to start another Exe in thread.

I tried "something", hinstance returns normal (points to MZ - beginning of any Exe), but what to do further ?
Which address I should call ?

GetProcAddress ..., "WinMain" returns 0.

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[Michael Mattias]

Eric --
I want to "talk" with another Exe (for example, Word) through messages. Sometimes, it's necessary to send addresses of structures or to add additional subclass procedure.
With two processes this way is impossible....

Not impossible at at all to share data among processes, if you control both programs (Which rules out "Word" if you mean Microsoft Word(r)). See my article "Data Sharing in Win/32" in the October 1999 issue of "BASICally Speaking."

BTW... the code for that article is public domain and available for download at the IMS web site (http://www.infoms.com). (Or for posting here, for that matter).

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[Semen Matusovski]

Michael --
Thanks for information.
If apps are controlled from both sides, situation is easy (and it possible to use, for example, MMF, like you mentioned).
If to speak about MS Word, theoretically it possible to use macroes.
But what to do, for example, with Notepad or WordPad ?
I am interesting to control any (not my) app.


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[Semen Matusovski]

Unfortunatelly, I found in MSDN exact words "Do not use LoadLibrary to "run" a .EXE file."
There is no such remark in Win32.Hlp.
Means, I am not first, who wanted to use LoadLibrary by such way.

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[This message has been edited by Semen Matusovski (edited March 11, 2000).]