>Greetings All,
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>I have an application that starts other applications outside of VFP. How can I determine what the handle of the Active Window. GetActiveWindow seems to return the VFP handle, I need the handle of the currently active app.
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>Example: I start my VFP app, which in turn kicks of a Seafood Ordering Application. I can get the handle of this application. Lets say I then start up MS-Mail and this is now on top, how would I get this handle? Then when I return to my Seafood App, I would need to get the Active Handle of the top window again.
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>Thanks in Advance.
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Hi Scott,

If the application has a static window handle you can use the FindWindow() API call:

DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow IN Win32API;
  STRING @lpclassname, STRING @lptitle
* lctitle is the apps title text bar
lnhWnd = FindWindow(0, @lctitle)

If lnhWnd equals zero, the window doesn't exsist. However, the title bar must match *exactly*.

Try downloading my Is_Run32 program from the Win32 and other APIs download section. It will retrieve the window handle based on the known portion of the title bar.

hth,