[RESOLVED] How to WinWaitActive and WinWaitActivate in VB 2008?

[mega128]

Is there any way I can have program wait till a specific window to opens up. I used similar function in AutoIt it is called WinWaitActive.

And, is there any way in VB 2008 that I can activate and bring a specific window in front, WinActivate does that...

I know the title and text of window that I need to activate and wait for...

Any ideas???

[kleinma]

You can use AppActivate, passing the title bar of the window you want to activate.

AppActivate("Untitled - Notepad")

You can also pass a process ID to AppActivate in the event you don't know its caption.

If AppActivate is too limited for your needs, you can use a few Win32 API calls like FindWindow and SendMessage to activate a given window.

[mega128]

Thanks Kleinma,

I guess I need much more than AppActivate. I will look into FindWindow and SendMessage Win32 APIs.

Thanks again.

[kleinma]

a really good wiki site for getting VB.NET versions of Win32 API calls is

www.pinvoke.net

Also, Jared Parsons, a VB team developer at Microsoft, released a utility app that also helps a ton. Check that out here.

http://www.codeplex.com/clrinterop