Hey Tim, there is many ways to bring back a window to the foreground, and the way you're going is one of them. In any cases, you will need the window handle to manipulate the right window. There is many ways to retrieve this handle, start looking thru the Fusion SDK, if they are not exposing it or just use the win32 api and its convenient functions to enumerate the windows and find the one you're interested in. You have btw to be sure you have the handle of the parent window of the application. I remember having posted times ago some examples related to the Qt integration in xsi which could fit your needs. =) -- Jo
2012/7/29 Tim Crowson <[email protected]> > 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] > > >
