>I am using WIN32API to find out if the application is all ready loaded then using ShowWindow to show the window. I get inconsistant results on showing the window. Sometimes it is shown and sometimes it is only partialy painted. I have tried the following with 3, 5 and 6:
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>LPARAMETER lnHWND
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>DECLARE INTEGER ShowWindow IN Win32API;
>  INTEGER hwnd, INTEGER dflag
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>= ShowWindow(lnHWND, 3)
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>Does anyone know the syntax for ShowWindow to maximize the window and bring it to the top?
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>Thanks

John,

I'm assuming that you're having a problem with maximizing a VFP window. This problem is directly (AFAIK) connected with the way VFP processes windows messages. In the above sample, 3 is SW_MAXIMIZE which should maximize the window.

A couple of readers of an article I had published in FoxPro Advisor, had a similar problem with the code I presented there. One thing that seemed to help was a call to BringWindowToTop() prior to issuing the ShowWindow() command.

Let me know if this helps.