What distinguishes a program shut down by accident versus one shut down on purpose? Either way, there's no way to detect that if you did not actually start the program. Even then, the shut-down method used is questionable. Five birds are sitting on a fence. Three of them decide to fly off. How many are left?

NO NO NO. :mad: Please don't encourage people to throw casts in without understanding the initial cause of their problem. The GetBuffer() method exists for precisely this case. --Mike-- Latest blog entry: *drool* (Alyson) [May 10] Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber "You have Erica on the brain" - Jon Sagara to me

SetWindowText("Your window text here"); :-D -Dominik _outp(0x64, 0xAD); and __asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al do the same... but what do they do?? ;)

the other question ... the ok and cancel button which are not there but working via keystrokes ... If you want to do nothing in your dialog, just override the default handlers of these keys : class CMyDialog::CDialog { . . virtual void OnOK( ) { /* do nothing*/ }; virtual void OnCancel( ) { /* do nothing*/ }; } for details look at the msdn descriptions of these cdialog members, for example OnOk : CDialog::OnOK virtual void OnOK( ); Remarks Called when the user clicks the OK button (the button with an ID of IDOK). Override this member function to perform the OK button action. If the dialog box includes automatic data validation and exchange, the default implementation of this member function validates the dialog-box data and updates the appropriate variables in your application. If you implement the OK button in a modeless dialog box, you must override the OnOK member function and call DestroyWindow from within it. Don’t call the base-class member function, because it calls EndDialog, which makes the dialog box invisible but does not destroy it.

It appears you want to send a pointer to a CString. Wrong: SendMessage(hMain, WM_SEND_HELLO, 0, (LPARAM &) text); Right: SendMessage(hMain, WM_SEND_HELLO, 0, (LPARAM) &text); Personly I recommend sending the address of the string instead of the address of a CString object. SendMessage(hMain, WM_SEND_HELLO, 0, (LPARAM)(LPCSTR)text); Trust in the code Luke. Yea right!

[edit] Sorry, did not see you already mentioned it. Why do you use DuplicateHandle?[/edit] BOOL TerminateThread( HANDLE hThread, // handle to the thread DWORD dwExitCode // exit code for the thread ); but this is never recommanded... ~RaGE();