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SetForegroundWindow(forms.application.mainWindow.handle) To give the main window of your program focus. Perhaps modifications of this will take you to the window of the calling program where you want the focus? Russell From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2014 4:43 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Shellexecute question I have a program (Program A) that fires up another (program B) via ShellExecute, if its not already running. However even though Program B is started minimised, focus shifts away from Program A, which is a minor nuisance. Is there any way to stop this within Delphi? Or will I have to do something like delve into the Windows API? if ShellExecute(Application.Mainform.Handle, 'open', Pchar(aProgName), PChar(aparaml), PChar(aDir), SW_SHOWMINIMIZED) <= 32 then ShowMessage('Start Minimised error:')
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