On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
....
> If you mean that you want processes that are already running to see
> the new settings, then I don't think that there is any way to do that
> without at least restarting those processes.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Brian Raven
>
> echo "ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.";;
> -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
...
This is off-topic, but I thought it might be of interest.
Microsoft alleges you can do this, but the process in question must listen
for and respond to the WM_SETTINGCHANGE window message. Unfortunately,
the CMD shell does NOT listen for this message so what you say is true.
If Microsoft ever see's fit to fix this in some later release of the OS,
you can make the system know there's a change with the (C call):
//Propagate change to system
SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0,
(LPARAM) "Environment", SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG,
5000, dwReturnValue);
Converting this to a perl compatible call with something like Aldo
Calpini's Win32::API module or an XS module is left as an exercise for the
reader. :-)
Steve Harper Campus Student Computing
Software Developer Marriott Library
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Utah
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