How to display child window originated from parent application?

[Danmilkman]

Hi y'all,

 

First of all, my programming languagesuite is .NET.

 

Here's my problem:

I'm tryin' to find out de windowhandles from the window generated from a parent application. MSN Messenger is an excellent example. The parent application is msnmsgr.exe and start a main window with your contacts listed. When clickin' on a contact you get a new window. I want to find this windowhandle without havin' to click on it.

 

Now on to my application. I'm starting MSN Messenger as a process from my own application (NOT shell) and the process starts with a unique processID. When clickin' on a contact the new window get the same processID but a different windowhandle. How can I get this from code?

 

Is this possible and if so, how?

 

Pleaze help,

 

Thnx.

 

D@n.

[CattleRustler]

could you iterate the forms collection, finding the active window, then get the handle property? I know each form has a me.handle as an IntPtr value

[mooman_fl]

Ok... call me dense. Are you wanting to do this for windows within your own application or in another running application? The method is a bit different for each.

[Danmilkman]

Ok... call me dense. Are you wanting to do this for windows within your own application or in another running application? The method is a bit different for each.

 

To be short: I want to do this from another application like MSN Messenger. My own application starts by example MSN Messenger as a process. MSN generates windows when starting a conversation. These are not available in my windows collection in my own application... Or are they?

[Danmilkman]

could you iterate the forms collection' date=' finding the active window, then get the handle property? I know each form has a me.handle as an IntPtr value[/quote']

 

That is possible, but the windows generated are from another application, not my own.