Using ShellExecute (Another one for the Guru's)

[VB6Coder]

I'm using ShellExecute to show the Find All dialog, which works fine.
http://support.microsoft.com/support...n_SRCH&SPR=VBB

The problem is getting a window handle to the Find All dialog I've just displayed.

Say I already have 2 Find All dialogs open and I call ShellExecute to display another, how do I get the window handle to the Find All dialog I've just displayed.

I can't use FindWindowEx because the window caption will be the same for all the Find All dialogs.

It says on www.vbapi.com that ShellExecute should return the window handle, but I keep getting 33 returned when I run it in Windows 2000 and 123 when I run it in Windows 95.

How do I get the correct window handle?

Thanks in advanced

[mlewis]

That information is incorrect. According to MSDN, the return code will be > 32 if success, <32 if failed. There is no way to get the window handle.

[jim mcnamara]

Goto www.vbapi.com

Look up ShellExecuteEx.

It returns, among other things, the hWnd of the window created.

[Nucleus]

Also see here:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ELLEXECUTEINFO

[yrwyddfa]

Try using CreateProcessA function it returns handles to both the process, and the thread that is subsequently created in the PROCESS_INFORMATION structure.

It also allows you to specify priority such as REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS [bad idea, btw!]

This function is far superior to Shell, ShellExecute etc. You may also find CreateProcessAsUser which is even better .. .

Hope this helps

[VB6Coder]

How do you display the Windows Find All Files dialog using CreateProcessA yrwyddfa?

[yrwyddfa]

good point - I will try to find out . . .

How do you do it with ShellExecute?

[crispin]

Shellexecute has a special adjuster for the find dialog, i.e.

         Call ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, _
                           "find", _
                           StrPtr("C:,D:" & vbNullChar), _
                           vbNullString, _
                           vbNullString, _
                           SW_SHOWNORMAL)

so if you can do this with CreateProcess i'll be quite moved...

[yrwyddfa]

Find All Files dialogue seems to be driven from Windows Explorer:

explorer.exe /e,/C:

But I can't find the switch for the dialogue - I will keep looking though.