MDI with process

[wrecklesswun]

Evening! Can anyone explain how to launch an external process such as explorer or notepad, and encompass that in an mdi form? Thanx

[jmcilhinney]

http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...4&postcount=13

[wrecklesswun]

Cool...one question. It works perfect for notepad.exe... How do i get this to work for let's say explorer.exe. When you try, the app is not contained in the mdi app

Thanx a bunch

[jmcilhinney]

Dunno. Maybe some windows refuse to be made children.

[jmcilhinney]

I just tried iexplore and explorer with a break point on the SetParent and it worked, indicating that there is some delay before the window be parented. Couldn't conjecture as to the reason. Also note that when I tried it with explorer when another explorer window was already open it failed with an exception because the existing process opened the new window and the new process exited. Explorer also threw an exception when closing its parent window.

[wrecklesswun]

so i am guessing explorer cannot be used...although ie works but when you browse to anything it goes to a new window