[DUG] Forcing a shellexecute window onto top.

[Paul A Norman]

What about SW_RESTORE ?

Peter Below's bigger solution to this in his posting suggests this can give
all sorts of control overn such a prog.

"The other option is to use CreateProcess to start the program. That gives
you (among other goodies) the threadID of the programs main thread. Which
you can then use with EnumThreadWindows to find the window(s) of that
thread. Go to http://www.deja.com, http://www.mers.com/searchsite.html,
http://www.tamracka.com or http://developers.href.com and search the
newsgroups for the API functions mentioned above for examples. "


On 30/05/06, Phil Scadden <p.scadden at gns.cri.nz> wrote:
>
> Having some fun with Shellexecute. I am using it from my program to
> get another application open one of its documents. No problem there.
> However, if the application is ALREADY running, then the document
> is opened within the existing application. Hmm. Not so good but no
> real problem. Now the real problem. If the application is covered by
> another
> window, this it is not brought to top and its not obvious that the
> document
> has been opened all. It looks like my application is not doing its job.
>
> I am calling shellexecute with shownormal. Any way to force the
> application
> to the top short of scanning the process list or findwindow and calling
> setwindowpos on that instance?
>
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