MDI Question: Two Separate Apps, One Child To Parent App 
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 MDI Question: Two Separate Apps, One Child To Parent App

I know they say in the Win 32 API to never do this, but I think it can be done because I've made some small
success on this. My question is how do I make one application the MDI parent form, then make another
application use the Win 32 API to find the MDI parent and then insert itself automatically as the child window
within that? This can be done easily if it's the same application, but I have a need to write something that
is extensible, where later on I can email out another EXE that "plugs" itself into the MDI parent EXE--giving
an effect that it is all one and the same application.

Using the Win 32 API's SetWindowLong function, I was successful in making one MDI form EXE, then making one
EXE the child to it in only one fashion--minimizing and maximizing the MDI form automatically minimizes and
maximizes the other EXE. However, I want something different--where the child EXE actually looks like a real
child window.

Anyone ever attempt this?

Mike McKee



Sat, 22 May 1999 03:00:00 GMT  
 
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