Running an application inside of an application

[mxed]

Hey

I'm trying to create an app as a "graphic" container, where I can have other app's running inside of it ..

eg. I have a tab window with two tabs. In the first tabpage I could have notepad running eg. and in the second tabpage i could have wordpad running or w/e exec.

So you see, i'm not trying to create an app that can launch other executables as normal, like a shortcut on the desktop. I'm want to create an app that is like a GUI wrapper ..

I've been rolling around on google for a few days now, and the closest thing i've found is CreateProcess() ; .. but that opens the exe as normal .. and I havn't found a way to tell it to open it in a window in my app.

Not sure if this is the right forum to ask .. but I use Visual Studio 2008 and I'm using the form designer to create my app. I have also attached a staged screenshot to help illustrate what I'm talking about.

Any help is appriciated, even if you can point me in a direction of where to look for an answer. Thanks.

[ThatThatGuy]

You cannot run any other application inside your form.....

[Plater]

You would need to use some Win32 API for this, grab the new processes window handle and somehow declare it as a child of your own.
How that is done, or even if its possible, i do not know.

[RedSon]

Window process need to be defined as children of other process when the process is created. You can't take one process and suddenly declare it as a child to your process. You can however create processes that are children to your own processes.

Maybe you can backup a minute and tell us why you are trying to do this?