click on menu item of another app

[Jimg]

Yes, I did, but that didn't work either.

[farrier]

Jimg,

That seems to indicate that you don't have the correct hWnd !!!

Spy++ may be your best bet to find and compare the real hWnd with what you are using at the time.

hth,

farrier

[Jimg]

The handle I'm finding is the same handle as Spy++,  and everything else was working, so it should have been the correct handle anyway.

Looking a little more closely, I made some assumptions I shouldn't have.  I knew that the app was iconic, I just minimized it myself.  The IsIconic api, however, returned false.  So I wasn't really executing the openicon api.  When I forced the OpenIcon call, it restored the app to normal.  The wierd thing, however, is that afterward, I could not minimize the app again, the minimize button was just ignored.  The same thing happened using showwindow.  Obviously, I'm not doing this right.  If I can't trust IsIconic, what do I use??

[Jimg]

After some testing, I've determined that this app is just wierd.  I tried the process on another app, and the isiconic and openicon worked properly.  For some reason, when this app is minimized, it doesn't test as minimized, and a GetWindowRect shows the same coordinates, minimized or not, where a normal app shows minimize coordinates way off the screen as expected.  Does anyone know what this effect is and how to handle it?

[P1]

Is it 16bit Windows 3.1 app???

Regards,  P1  :8)

[Jimg]

No, not at all.   http://www.quotetracker.com/

[jojo]

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SetForegroundWindow

There are some problems with SetForegroundWindow, check http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/windows/windowreference/windowfunctions/setforegroundwindow.asp

A safe way to activate a window is
inv ShowWindow, Handle, SW_HIDE ;optional, may be faster
inv ShowWindow, Handle, SW_MINIMIZE
inv ShowWindow, Handle, SW_RESTORE

[Mark Jones]

Also if you didn't notice this already, each "press" of the ALT key must occur twice in code - one call for down, and one call for up. That's why it "sticks."