Word automation from Acc97

[Juergen Grieb]

Hi,

my app starts an instance of Word in an Acc97 form. So far I have
complete control over Word, except in the circumstance that Word has
other "windows" (including dialogs like the printing dialog) open.

Searching the web I found no reliable way to get Word's status in case
another Word window is open. So I thought, that finding out if Word
has other windows open would be enough. Since I cannot get that
information from Word (it doesn't respond if a dialog is open) I
thought that API would do the trick.

Unfortunatly, I have no experience at all with API. FindWindowEx and
EnumChildWindows seems like what I need, but I wasn't able to figure
out how to use them to get the wanted information.

Can anybody please tell me how to get all open "windows" of an
existing Word instance?

Thanks a lot!

Juergen

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

By using an api, you can find out if any app is running. This works in
Access 97:

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0007.htm

 

[Juergen Grieb]

Hi Arvin,

By using an api, you can find out if any app is running. This works in
Access 97:

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0007.htm

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, that is not what I'm looking
for.

I know Word is runnning, because my app starts it I even have a
handle to the main Word window.

I'm looking for a way to find out if my Word instance has other
windows open besides its main window.

Juergen

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

You might be able to find out by asking in:

microsoft.public.vb.winapi