>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?

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If you mean the window handle of the main VFP window, it depends on the version of VFP you're using. In VFP 6.0 and before, load the Foxtools library and use the value returned by MainhWnd(). In VFP 7.0, use _VFP.hWnd.