How to pass a bitmap from one script to the other?

[KaFu]

Hiho,

this is directly related to

Doing some testing and some reading validated this MSDN statement: "An extraction should never be done on a UI thread." Depending on the file type and output thumbnail size the processing can take some seconds. This renders the UI unresponsive.

So I thought the best thing would be to relocate the extraction code to a separate exe file ("different thread") and poll the results in the working loop (notification via wm_copydata?). For performance reasons I want to avoid accessing the drive / actually writing the extracted bitmaps to disk... but I did not come up with a working idea for this ... maybe read the bitmap to a string and pass this via wm_copydata too?

Anyone got a hint or idea for me, a pointer to an example which can be used?

Best Regards

[JohnOne]

Im useless with this kind of thing and tend to simplify them to much, so please forgive me if my post is stupid and useless.

I've read a little bit on the forums from time to time about HBitmap, and im assuming that might be a hande to the bitmap, or maybe a pointer. Just wondering if that is all you would need to pass along to exe #2.

Heres a thread I found that might hold some info

Seems there were problems with access violation but if exe #2 were a child of exe #1 that might solve such an access problem.

Again, sorry if Im talking rubbish, and can not provide a example.

[KaFu]

JohnOne, Deathbringer, both methods look promising, thanks for the feedback ! I'll test em and come back with the result (maybe after xmas ).

Edited December 22, 2010 by KaFu

[eukalyptus]

Maybe this is what you are looking for:

http://www.autoit.de/index.php?page=Thread&postID=160909#post160909

http://www.autoit.de/index.php?page=Attachment&attachmentID=12143&h=12adb12f485762c0cead317060df5fbcfb845e3f

compile the examples, run Example_GDI(Plus)_Receive.exe and press Enter

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[KaFu]

From the first look exactly what I'm searching for , I will check it out. Thanks a lot!