Tim,
Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > I am trying to get a handle on an external process (Internet Explorer
6 in
> > this case) that I open using win32process. I need the handle so that I
can
> > make said process the top window.
> When you call CreateProcess, that window should automatically become the
> top window. Are you saying that's not happening? Have you tried
> creating a STARTUPINFO struct and filling in the wShowWindow element?
Sorry, I guess I thought more than I actually typed. It does make the
newly created window the top window. But later on in my program, I open
the source code for the displayed page and will need to make sure that I
return to the correct IE instance, which is why I wanted a handle on the
IE window. I thought I knew the correct terminology to express this, but I
guess not.
<snip>
> >
> > # attempt to make Internet Explorer 6 the Foreground Window
> > win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(handle)
> >
> No, the error message is right. A process handle is not the same as a
> window handle. Indeed, a process need not have any windows at all.
> > I can get the handle by doing this:
> >
> > hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow('IEFrame',None)
> >
> > But if there's multiple Explorer windows open, I may not get the
window I
> > want. That's why I would like to create my own so I can have what
amounts
> > to an "exclusive" handle to it. Any hints would be appreciated.
> >
> One possibility is to enumerate through all of the top-level windows
> using EnumWindows, and for each window call GetWindowThreadProcessId to
> find the process ID associated with that window to find the one that
> matches your process. Remember that the process ID is not the same as a
> process handle; the process ID is the third thing in the tuple
> CreateProcess returns.
Yeah, I am well aware of this method and was hoping to avoid it. Thanks
for the clarification on window handle versus process handle. I was
thinking about this the wrong way because I thought they were the same.
> --
> Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center
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