How do I make a 3rd party program the active application?

[Daniel_Christie]

How do I make a 3rd party program get the focus?

I think it has something to do with "AppActivate" or something like this. An example would be appreciated, thanks.

Daniel_Christie

[This message has been edited by Daniel_Christie (edited 02-11-2000).]

[Aaron Young]

Try the SetForegroundWindow API, ie.

Private Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Call SetForegroundWindow(lHwnd)
End Sub

Where lHwnd is the Window Handle of the Application you want to give Focus.

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[Buzby]

Or you can use

AppActivate "title",TRUE

eg;

AppActivate "Microsoft Word",TRUE

The TRUE bit means that your program has to have the focus in order to be able to activate the other program - if you make it FALSE your program can activate the other program even when it hasn't got the focus.



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