Hey all.

I just wanted to ask if its possible to send data from one already loaded executable (Windows) to another already loaded executable? That is, without starting another instance of the recieving executable passing command line arguments to it.

Mac OSX has an Event Manager that lets you send events and notifications between apps and I was just wondering if a similar system might exist on Windows.

Naturally you could write data to a file or data base from one executable and have the second .exe read from it, but that requires both executables to know the location, etc of the storage repository and it wastes time writing / reading data like that. You could also send data over TCP to your loopback address, specifying a port number that the recieving application listens on, but again its kind of messy and wastes a bit of time.

What would be the best way to share information between two executables on Windows?

Thanks everyone =]

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I've heard of DDE which does this. I don't know much about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Data_Exchange

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Ah!

Thanks a lot

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A pawn can eventually become a queen...

I think you will want to use so called "Named pipes":

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 85%29.aspx

I do think it might be a bit of a hassle to setup, so you might use an example somewhere instead.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication

I prefer shared memory, but that's just me. Choose your solution according to the problem.

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