how to get windows

how to get windows

• ThomasAG

  unfortunately I'm not sure about that one, my apologies for the previous response. I am sure however someone else would know about this or even if it's possible. Somehow you would have to catch the program events and "invoke" it in some way I really don't know, just guessing from the top of my head
  
  

• pwhitaker

  To show the Window to the user, you need to use the SetForegroundWindow API:

  To get the handle of a process, simply use the Process class, which lives in the System.Diagnostics namespace, to get the list of processes, then find the one you want and get the handle to it, then use the SetForegroundWindows API to show the process Window to the user

  You could also use the FindWindow API to find the Window by the name of the process (title) if you have not already:

  http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32/FindWindow.html

  http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32/SetForegroundWindow.html

  hope this helps

  
  
  

• Gilles Lafreniere

  there are a couple of thread on these forums...try looking at these:

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=643672&SiteID=1

  unfortunately for yourself, that code is in C# but a VB.NET translation would be:

   

  'Me.theSystrayNotifyIcon = new NotifyIcon(Me.components) Me.theSystrayNotifyIcon.Icon = new Icon(Me.Icon, Me.Icon.Width, Me.Icon.Height) Me.theSystrayNotifyIcon.Visible = true 'AddHandler theSystrayNotifyIcon.DoubleClick, AddressOf Me.theSystrayNotifyIcon_DoubleClick 'unsure how to handle event declaration in VB.NET...something for you to perhaps look at if the above doesnt work ... Private Sub theSystrayNotifyIcon_DoubleClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles theSystrayNotifyIcon.DoubleClick if Me.Visible = true then    Me.Hide() else    Me.Show()    Me.BringToFront()    Me.Activate() end if End Sub

   

  try also this

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun03282003.asp

   

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=330178&SiteID=1

  does this help

  
  
  

• VoiceOfExperience

  thank you for your kind help. i have one more difficult question:

  how could i work with the notification icons besides the clock

  
  
  

• Neil Enns MSFT

  unfortunatelly not... i meant the system's notification icons, other programs, and every else that is shown besides the clock. and i would like to use them as windows does it.

  so if i run winamp and it puts its icon into the notification area, i'd like to get that icon and handle its events as windows does.

  
  
  
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