POSIX/Win32 Port involving QProcess, QSharedMemory

Hello all,

I am tasked with porting an MFC-based program to Qt4, and would like to set up as much groundwork as possible to make this app as much cross-platform as possible (at this time, certain hardware limitations prevent us from completely porting this to Linux).

The program spawns several processes and communicates with these processes using a shared memory segment set up like so:

Code:

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HANDLE m_hMap;
LPVOID m_pSharedData;
// ...
void initSharedMemory() {
  m_hMap=::CreateFileMapping((HANDLE)0xffffffff,0,PAGE_READWRITE,0,sizeof(RTC_DATA),MAPFILE);		     
  m_pSharedData=::MapViewOfFile(m_hMap,FILE_MAP_WRITE,0,0,0);
}

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where RTC_DATA is the gobal struct containing the data and MAPFILE a #define.

The sub-processes are spawned like so:

Code:

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ShellExecute( HWND(this), "open", "proc.exe", str_args, NULL, SW_HIDE);

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Later in the code, the processes are being sent messages like this:

Code:

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int SendMsgToProc(int procid, int cmd, long code, long code1)
{
	char strtmp[10];
	sprintf(strtmp,"PROC%d",motorid);
	CWnd *pWnd;
	pWnd = CWnd::FindWindow(NULL,strtmp);	
	if(pWnd)
	{
		WM_MSG msg;
		msg.command = cmd;
		msg.code = code;
		msg.code1 = code1;
		COPYDATASTRUCT cs;
		cs.cbData=sizeof(WM_MSG);
		cs.dwData=0;		
		cs.lpData=&msg;
		pWnd->SendMessage(WM_COPYDATA,(WPARAM)AfxGetApp()->m_pMainWnd->GetSafeHwnd(),(LPARAM)&cs);
		return 0;
	}
	else
	{
		return -1;
	}
}

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So far, I believe QProcess would be the right thing to do, and did the following:

Code:

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QProcess *sub_proc = new QProcess(qApp);
// ... reading a configuration file ...
QStringList args = line.split("\s");
sub_proc->start("proc.exe",args);

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I also replaced the shared memory implementation with QSharedMemory. Now, however I need to be able to access these processes in a like manner as the "SendMsgToProc" function above.

Can anyone point me into the right direction? I know there is a WId for widgets, but would that even be feasible? Am I correct in attaching the QProcess instances to the global qApp?

I have no idea about MFC, and am only somewhat intermediate with Qt. If QProcess is not the right way to go, I would appreciate any comments as to what would be better.

Thanks,
Stephan