how to bring another application to the top?

[ricardospam]

Hi all!

I'm in Windows 2000 and Windows XP

I wanna send a "maximize message" to another application

I tried some like that
PostMessage( FindWindow(nil, 'Caption of that program') , SW_MAXIMIZE,0,0);

but whithout efects

how can I do this?

thanks a lot!

 

[DelphiAaron]

try it this way

SendMessage(FindWindow(nil, 'Caption of that program') ,WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MAXIMIZE, 0);

Aaron

 

[ricardospam]

It works!
Thanks a lot!


by the way,

I saw you used SendMessage and I tried with PostMessage and asked to my self:
What's the diference?
and I found this answer in the help of the delphi:

"SendMessage calls the window procedure for the specified window and does not return until the window procedure has processed the message.

The PostMessage function, in contrast, posts a message to a thread's message queue and returns immediately."

 

[whosrdaddy]

so to resume, sendmessage is synchronous and postmessage is async style...

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