A method to diplay Dynamic Graphics .exe file and display results using direct3d?

[azaad2004]

hi fellow programmers!

I am doing a project with direct3d and win32 API. Part of this project has to have a "dynamic" monitor, which displays changing info in 3d space.
I have attached a screen-shot of the program( the black screen is where the dynamic display has to be added... but at the moment it is just a texture).
The dynamic display itself is a dynamic Graphics .exe file which I managed to open using CreateProcess method.

using BitBlt method I have managed to capture the contents of .exe file in another window but that window was not using direct3d; it was just an empty window.

how can I display this updating Bitmap using direct3d? Can I store the data on a buffer of some sort and then display it?
can this then be transformed?
Bear in mind this program is not only a bitmap; it's also displaying some text and numbers and some graphs which varry with time.


Here's the actual code so far:

CreateProcess(NULL,"play20m.bat",
NULL,NULL,FALSE,CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE,
NULL,NULL,sim,prostruc) )

EnumWindows(&EnumWindowsProc,prostruc->dwThreadId);


BOOL CALLBACK EnumWindowsProc(HWND hwnd,LPARAM lparam)
{
DWORD ThreadId= GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd,NULL);
HWND EXEhandle,WindowHandle;
if( ThreadId == (DWORD)lparam)
{

EXEhandle=hwnd;
HDC DChandle=GetDC(EXEhandle);
HDC DCHandleDest;
if (DChandle!=NULL)
{
BitMapHwd= CreateCompatibleBitmap(DChandle,200,200);
Object= SelectObject(DChandle, BitMapHwd);
DCHandleDest=GetDC(g_hWnd);
BitBlt(DCHandleDest, 0, 0, 300,300, DChandle, 0, 0, SRCCOPY);

return true;
}
else MessageBox(0,"failed DC","failed DC",MB_OK);


return true;

}

return false;



}


I have posted this question here too, because this program ultimately needs to be implemented with direct3d.

This is where I asked the question before.. it's just a bit more detailed:
http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=384188

Thanks,

[nolxev]

You can use the "render to a texture" method, simple bind a texture in a quad and draw everything within that textures, it's possible. Googling to find tutorials.