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Dark GDK / Windows forms startup form

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Franky Danneels
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Posted: 3rd May 2008 20:02
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Hi everybody,

I just managed to make a DarkGDK application that does everything I want it to do

I'd like to make a start up form, where i can choose to change some settings, to start main.cpp,...

So here is my problem, I added another project to my solution file (Windows Form Application), and I want to run the DarkGDK main.cpp file by clicking a button on the 'Windows Forms' form.

What c++ code do i have to put in the click event? Or do i have to do it on another way?


thanks in advance

Franky
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jason p sage
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Posted: 3rd May 2008 22:35
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Actually... you should google starting or spawning another process... I never remember this stuff... in C++ i haven't tried yet.. but in C# you StartNewThread or something - I've done it I just forget...

I'd suspect if you're coding in C++ that you should be able to hook a Win32 API command that literally equates to launching a command shell without the "command intepreter".. literally start process and be able to pass parameters also.


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Core2uu
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Posted: 3rd May 2008 23:55 Edited at: 3rd May 2008 23:56
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You could have two totally separate builds... The game and the menu... As Jason said have the menu open up and then use a shell command to open the game...

In VB6 all I think you have to do is put that into the event handler... say a click of a button:


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jinzai
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CreateProcess is the normal way. A much simpler (although deprecated) way is WinExec. Both are in the help for MSVC++.
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