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Apologies if the description is long; I just want to make the question clear(er).
I have a WIN32 project in which there are some applications and some DLLs that may or may not use a framework. The framework itself is statically linked to apps and DLLs and it has an important data structure that should be unique. Currently, when a DLL is loaded it has no way of knowing if the process in which it was loaded uses the framework and if the data structure has been created or not.
If DLL uses the framework and the EXE doesn't, the DLL can initialize the data structure and all is fine.
If the EXE uses the framework and the DLL doesn't, the EXE will initialize the structure and all is fine again.
The problem appears when both the DLL and the EXE use the framework and only the EXE should initialize the structure and the DLL should just somehow find the address and use the data structure.
I know I could use a shared memory area but this is not inter-process communication so I'd rather use something simpler. I even thought of setting an environment variable with the address of the structure but somehow the solution seems cheesy.
Do you have any suggestion? Is there any standard/better way of doing this?
Mircea
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Couldn't the executable simply call a function of the DLL, passing the address of the data?
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Thanks for the suggestion but the DLL-EXE API is set in stone. With over 300 DLL modules changing the API is not easy/feasible. I have to find a different solution. I'll probably go with the environment variable; I'll just have to hold my nose while coding 
Mircea
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Rather than use the environment variable you could use the Registry.
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Interesting idea! However I would have to take care of cleaning the registry when the app finishes. The environment variable just "evaporates" on exit. Do you see any technical advantage to using the registry?
Mircea
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Delete a registry key or value is very simple.
And (almost) no one else (except your app) would like to change it.
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Is the "framework" API set in stone? It sounds like it should be the one controlling the existence of this structure. You said it was statically linked to both the DLL and the EXE, hence two copies of the library, but you can force it to use a single shared memory location to hold this structure's pointer. Both the DLL and the EXE would ask the framework for a pointer and the framework would use some sort of mutual exclusion / atomic operation to synchronize its access to the shared memory location to either allocate or use the existing structure.
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JudyL_MD wrote: It sounds like it should be the one controlling the existence of this structure.
Absolutely right.
JudyL_MD wrote: the framework would use some sort of mutual exclusion / atomic operation
Key words here are "some sort of". That was the purpose of my question to ask for recommendations for "some sort of" mechanism 
Mircea
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The first thing that pops into my head is to force the EXE and DLL to make their initial framework calls from separate threads and have the framework use a named mutex. Not elegant spawning a thread just to make a single function call and immediately waiting for that thread to finish, but it would work.
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I'm certainly no expert at COM, but this sounds like the kind of situation where it would be a good fit.
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I would have used a (third) dll for the (static) "data structure"; the equivalent of a "data repository".
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how to create a button in mfc dialog
and drag and drop the button or any control in the same dialog.
please answer with complete MFC code.
by
gopal
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Member 14869339 wrote: how to create a button in mfc dialog
and drag and drop the button or any control in the same dialog.
Do you mean the dialog resource editor or you'd like to "drag and drop" existing controls within your running application?
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i mean, create a button or checkbox dynamically on MFC dialog window(not sdi or mdi) and drag and drop that button on the same dialog.(dialog is main window).
thanks in advance.
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If you create it dynamically that means you already control where it is positioned. So what do you hope to achieve with drag and drop?
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To create "a button or checkbox dynamically on MFC ... window" you do the following steps:
1. create a variable of the CButton class
2. Call CButton::Create method to create a button or checkbox window.
That's all.
You only need to read the Microsoft Docs and know the exact size and position of your button within the parent (dialog or form view or some other) window.
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And at some point, you're going to demand a job too, right?
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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You use the resource editor in Visual Studio, which will generate the code for you.
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Message Closed
modified 15-May-23 19:06pm.
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Member 14968771 wrote: no "post (this) at QT forum " -
just do not answer if you do not want to help.
Comments like that are probably what got you kicked off the other sites. If you want help then try a different approach.
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Member 14968771 wrote: DELETED SOLVED
Deleted, really? 
So no one in the future might learn?
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In my program I'm using system("") command to add a variable into User variables using reg add. In the future I'll want to update the variable value to something else, but if the variable exists it will prompt the user to input Y/N to override it. Is there a way to automatically give the input instead of the user? I was thinking that maybe I could use system("y"), but it still waits for the input from the user, and then gives the error that y is not a command.
I can't use Windows.h to modify registry, so I want to find a solution to this. Maybe I'll need system("") for something else in the future that will have the same problem with having to input something.
Solution:
Victor Nijegorodov wrote: According to the reg add | Microsoft Docs you can add option /f that will cause the adding the registry entry without prompting for confirmation.
modified 7-Jul-22 7:00am.
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I do not understand how system("") can add a variable to anything. I think we need more details.
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He said he's using system("reg add") to do it. I've never used either one, but I assume it's a way for a program to add something to the registry. I think he's now looking for a way for a program to enter "y" on the user's behalf, perhaps to confirm a system command invoked by system(). But I don't know of a way to fake console input. Do you?
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