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[Reak]

Hey,

how could I send a message from a dll to my console application.
The console application is using the dll already.
But I have no idea how I could do that.

Any suggestions?

[Bizarro]

if its only one way communication, sendmessage or postmessage is the easiest of all

if you need consant duplex communication between two or more processes, use named pipe. u can send either string type or byte type data

[Reak]

Yea I thought of Post/Send-Message too, but I don't know how to revice the message in the Console application then.
TranslateMessage() and DispatchMessage().
But DispatchMessage() calls the WinProc which doesn't exist in this case.

[Symbol]

Once the DLL is in the memory of the console you can call console APIs, for instance, printf, and the output will be shown on the console window, use it the same as you would've used them in the console application.

In your DLL:

[Reak]

Thanks Symbol. That makes sense x).
The problem is, that it's a dll with a system-wide hook.
So I need to send the message to a constant handle.

[Symbol]

You could also redirect the window procedure to your own window procedure:

[BanMe]

look at GetStdHandle ... ReadConsole WriteConsole so forth ;p

http:// msdn . microsoft . com/en-us/library/ms685032(VS.85).aspx

those are some good suggestions Symbol and Bizarro i feel that SendMessage accompanied by a threaded GetMessage that pools the message queue relativily slowly so as to not have a overbearing performance degradation would the best internal method.

another valid solution would be to use Indirection to write data/code directly to the process memory you could even recycle String locations ...
making a Green Application would be funneh