[DUG] Forcing a shellexecute window onto top.

[Dennis Chuah]

SW_RESTORE will not work.

You can use ShellExecuteEx instead.  It returns a handle to the process, 
from which you can find the main window and bring to the front.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul A Norman" <paul.a.norman at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 2:32 PM


> 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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