for completeness, take a look at this reference which exposes the functions relative to windows manipulation with win32: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff468919(v=vs.85).aspx -- Jo
2012/7/29 jo benayoun <[email protected]> > 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] >> >> >> > >
