Have Child Script Update Parent Box

Keywords: 	 custom static control BoxOpen from Parent to Child 

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Question:

I am trying to use the box open command and want to use the same windows for all child apps. How would I accomplish this?

I use the main application as a wrapper\launcher and the child exe's to do the actual work.

Answer:

If you only need to update the box text you could create a custom static control and pass its handle to the child scripts so they can update it.

Something like:

;MAIN SCRIPT

;x , y : position in pixels
;w , h : width & height in pixels
;txt   : initial text
;style : additional style , set to 0 or use api values
#definefunction createstatic(x,y,w,h,txt,style)
hwnd=dllhwnd("")
hinst=dllhinst("")
user32=strcat(dirwindows(1),"user32.dll")
return dllcall(user32,long:"CreateWindowExA",long:0,lpstr:"Static",lpstr:txt,long:1073741824|268435456|style,long:x,long:y,long:w,long:h,long:hwnd,long:0,long:hinst,long:0) ;WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE
#endfunction

BoxColor(1,"192,192,192",0) ;same as static

hstatic=createstatic(10,10,100,25,"",0)

boxopen("","")

call("update.wbt",hstatic)
;run("update.exe",hstatic)
;end main


;CHILD SCRIPT (update.wbt)
for x=1 to 10
  IntControl(22,param1,12,0,x) ;WM_SETTEXT
  timedelay(1)
next
;end child