I recall doing a bit of work on this and had to get the program PID and do some tricky stuff if there were multiple instances open.
I was working with Paul Sultan from Psyop at the time so if he's listening maybe he can chime in. -------------------------------------------- Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Tim Crowson < [email protected]> wrote: > Somewhat OT here... I've been Googling for half an hour without much > luck... > > I have a tool which contains a button that either launches a program (in > this case Fusion), or brings it to the foreground if it's already running. > Launching it if it's not already running is trivial, but I can't quite > figure out how to bring it to the foreground (and take focus away from > XSI). I know it's bad manners to steal focus, but in this case it kinda > makes sense (plus it's been requested). > > As far as I can tell, I can use win32gui.BringWindowToTop() to bring > Fusion to the foreground, but I need to pass the program's handle to it. > Can anyone shed some light on how to go about getting said handle? > > Or, if you have a suggestion for switching app focus from Soft to Fusion > (via a button, not Alt-tab!), I'm all ears. Thanks for any and all > assistance! > > -- > > > > *Tim Crowson > **Lead CG Artist* > > *Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. > *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 > *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com > [email protected] > > >
