>I need to bring a running copy of Word forward from VFP. If Word is not minimized, SetForegroundWindow() works great. If it is minimized, the window doesn't come forward. I guess what I really need to do is find out if it's minimized and if it is restore it.
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>Any ideas?
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Hi Josh,

First, you need the window handle. It'd probably be easiest to use my Is_Run function from the download section to retrieve that value, then:

DECLARE INTEGER ShowWindow IN Win32API;
  INTEGER hwnd, INTEGER nCmdShow
DECLARE SHORT IsIconic IN Win32API;
  INTEGER hwnd
DECLARE SHORT SetForegroundWindow IN Win32API;
  INTEGER hWnd
* lnhWnd is the window handle
IF (IsIconic(lnhWnd) # 0)
  * 9 = SW_RESTORE
  * Restore the window
  = ShowWindow(lnhWnd, 9)
ENDIF
= SetForegroundWindow(lnhWnd)

I think that I also saw a file in the download section that may do this automatically for you.

hth,