Multiple Processes vs Multiple Dialogs

[Captrick458]

We are in the process of building a large application where the user may have several dialogs, etc. open at one time. We don't want a modal dialog (ie. Yes, No, Cancel) to suspend operations on other dialogs, just the parent dialog.

It seems that we can substitute a non-modal dialog, and test for its existance in the OnActivate message handler, and return control to it when its parent is activated. Sort of a psuedo DoModal().

Another option, is to simply spawn a new process for each Dialog, etc. as they are really independent and will peacefully co-exist as separate processes.

Any thoughts on which is a better way to proceed?

Thanks, Rick

 

[CodingNovice]

if each process is nicely self contained and can talk using the usual forms of IPC where necessary then that is probably the better solution.