Getting MS-Project's HWnd from add-in

[Anonymous]

I am developing a MS-Project add-in using Delphi. After much investigation,
I have concluded that to avoid having and its forms showing in the taskbar,
I have to get Project's HWnd.

Sadly, I have been unable to find anything in Project's type library which
gives back the HWnd. MSDN's site yields no relevant functions/properties
that I managed to find.

Any ideas how can I get it? (Please something less lame than "change
Project's window title into something unique, FindWindow and then change the
title back")

TIA.

 

[Mark Durrenberger]

Try this

Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" _
Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal IPClassName As String, _
ByVal IpWindowName As String) As Long

in your code:

strWindowCaption = Application.Caption
lngHwnd = FindWindow(vbNullString, strWindowCaption)


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"Advancing the Theory and Practice of Project Management"
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[Mark Durrenberger]

Sorry, it's the only option I was able to come up with...
after quite a bit of effort.

What's wrong with using findwindow?

Good luck,
Mark


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_________________________________________________________
Mark Durrenberger, PMP
Principal, Oak Associates, Inc, www.oakinc.com
"Advancing the Theory and Practice of Project Management"
________________________________________________________

The nicest thing about NOT planning is that failure
comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by
a period of worry and depression.

- Sir John Harvey-Jones

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the effort, but I specifically said I do NOT want to use
FindWindow. I'm trying to figure out a MS-Project function/property that
will give me its hWnd.

 

[Fredrik Wahlgren]

FindWindow Should work just fine since you search for thr class name, not
the caption

/ Fredrik

 

[Anonymous]

FindWindow will work ASSUMING some idiot doesn't create an application with
the same class name, in which case the dialogs will appear in the wrong
window!