Load A ImageList in a second Script

[emmanuel d]

I am making a Imagelist In the first script, and put some icons in it.
Then i want to pass it to a second compiled script(exe).
He will load a bunch of icons, that i then want to use in the 1st script.
sure my problem probably are pointers or varref or something

The Caller:

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#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#SingleInstance force   
#Warn All
Msgbox(ImageListID := IL_Create(10, 10,1))
Loop 10  ; Load the ImageList with some standard system icons.
    IL_Add(ImageListID, "shell32.dll", A_Index)
Run('"E:\Documents\My_Programing\AHK\IL Test External fill.exe" ' ImageListID)

The receiver:

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#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#SingleInstance force   
#Warn All
if A_Args.Length {
  Msgbox("Handle passed: " A_Args[1])
  ImageListID := A_Args[1]
  }
Msgbox DllCall("ComCtl32.dll\ImageList_GetImageCount", "Ptr", ImageListID, "Int")
Loop 10  ; Load the ImageList with some standard system icons.
    Msgbox(IL_Add(ImageListID, "shell32.dll", 10+A_Index))

Anybody some clues

[teadrinker]

ImageListID is a handle, it cannot be passed to another process, it has no meaning there.

[emmanuel d]

That makes no sense to me, we use handles of other things for different scripts all the time.
you can change all kind of content of other controls that dont belong to the script.
So if it is just a handle, we should be capable of using it

[teadrinker]

Image list handles are specific to a single process and cannot be shared across processes.

[emmanuel d]

thx
to bad