Mark Hammond wrote: >Sadly, I think GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent will not work for you. In short, it >is nearly useless :) The description of the function says it "sends a >specified signal to a console process group that shares the console >associated with the calling process" and it means it literally. In your >case, it sounds like you have a GUI program, so that will not have a >console, so will never be able to be part of your process group. If the >running program is not in the exact same console as your app, you are hosed. > >More info on this can be found at >http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0698/win320698.aspx, where they describe a >technique where they need to use another child process to make this work - >but even then its not clear it would work if you app is a GUI one. > > Thank you for the link. I'll check it out. I hadn't had the chance to try the GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent yet.
>hrm - re-reading your message above, it sounds like the child process *is* a >console process. Either way, the above should get you in the right >direction. > > In this case, yes, the child process is a console process, since it's a commandline application. It turns out that the application comes with another program attached that may do what I need, but I'm going to look at the link you provided, just in case. Thanks a bunch. Sean _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
