Controlling other applications

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From: Timo Veijola
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 1991 06:56

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It's easy to start an other application (eg. notepad) from your own code
using WinExec() or LoadModule() but how to you resize, move or delete
the other applications window ?

I have tried following ways but with no success:

- Retrieve the window handles of all windows on the screen using 
  hWnd=GetWindow(). GetWindowText(hWnd...) gives the caption titles OK.
- SendMessage(hWnd ...) does not seem to work. Propably the message is
  only delivered the my own applications message queue ...
- DestroyWindow(hWnd) has no effect ?



Timo Veijola
timo@aplac.hut.fi
Circuit Theory Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Helsinki University of Technology

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