[DUG] Forcing a shellexecute window onto top.

[Paul A Norman]

with SetForegroundwindow ?


On 30/05/06, Dennis Chuah <dennis_cs_chuah at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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