restarting a program

[dennisV]

I also need help on how to restart a program from within itself... Basically I have a need to reload my program from scratch if a user changes some options. I'm not sure how to accomplish that, so any suggestions or hints would be really helpful! Thanks in advance, Dennis MCP, MCSD

[benjymous]

Can't you just make it ShellExecute it's own exe (passing down any command line options if appropriate) and then quit the original? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

[dennisV]

Strangely enough, it works! I just didn't think of that option because I am limiting my application to one instance only in InitInstance and I thought that the thread wouldn't be destroyed as fast as it does and it would block the launch of a new one. But it doesn't. Thanks. MCP, MCSD

[benjymous]

Hmm, in that case it's worth testing rigourously (especially on slower machines) as it may end up failing some of the time. Another solution would just to be to run a secondary application (or batch file) that's job is to just pause until the main app is quit, and then relaunch it -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!