>I have an application that starts another task doing a Run /N xxx.exe. The problem I am having is the new task keeps focus while
>the original task seems to run in the background. What I want to do is cause the original task to be the active task as quickly
>as possible after the second task is started. I have a routine that I have tried using the sendmessage command along with a
>messagereceived event. I coded a setfocus in the event but that did not work. A C programmer friend of mine said to try the
>windows setfocus command but in order to do that I need to know what my window handle is. Any ideas?

Did you try Run /N2 xxx.exe - run minimized?

You can get main foxpro window hande using FindWindow. See Win API#4. Take also look at SetForegroundWindow Win API#87 and Win API#12643