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- From: twbrown@PE-Nelson.COM (Tom W. Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Re: Novice programmer question
- Message-ID: <710@lax.lax.pe-nelson.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 19:20:47 GMT
- References: <1992Dec13.204238.8073@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec13.204238.8073@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, tylerd@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (TYLER DAVID CHARLES) writes:
- |> I'll make this brief:
- |> Why doesn't the following work?
- |>
- |> if (!hPrevInstance)
- |> {
- |> [normal stuff]
- |> }
- |> else
- |> //
- |> // If an instance is already running, just display it.
- |> //
- |> {
- |> if (IsIconic (hPrevInstance))
- |> {
- |> OpenIcon (hPrevInstance);
- |> }
- |> BringWindowToTop (hPrevInstance);
- |> return TRUE; // Or should this be FALSE?
- |> }
-
- The routines IsIconic(), OpenIcon(), and BringWindowToTop() need window
- handles, not instance handles.
-
- Use FindWindow() (as one possibility) to obtain the window handle for the
- first instance. Assuming that you have the class name (used to register
- the window class) in a variable, szClassName, you can do the following:
-
- .
- .
- .
- else
- {
- HWND hwnd = FindWindow(szClassName, NULL);
- if (hwnd)
- {
- if (IsIconic(hwnd))
- OpenIcon(hwnd);
-
- BringWindowToTop(hwnd);
- }
- else
- {
- MessageBeep(MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);
- MessageBox(GetFocus(), "Unable to find window of first instance",
- NULL, MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);
- }
-
- return 0;
- }
- .
- .
- .
-
- The return value doesn't particularly matter -- it *can* be interpreted
- as an error code by the environment that spawned your application, but
- Windows itself doesn't care.
-
-
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