Unmaximize application

[Harry Hunt]

Hi!
I'm writing a program that launches an external application and then resizes it and moves it to a certain position on the screen. This works okay for applications that aren't maximized, however with apps that are maximized it doesn't work at all. So my question is: how can I force an external application to un-maximize?

I tried ShowWindow(ExtHandle, SW_SHOWNORMAL); but that doesn't work.

Thanks a bunch!

[Harry Hunt]

Okay, I got that solved... now I have another problem.
I'm using CreateProcess to run an app and then I use EnumWindows to get the window handle. This works great with Notepad and most applications that don't have a splash screen. Is there any way to get the window handle of the actual application's window (and not the splash screen)?
Thanks again!

[Paulius]

I guess you could try something like this: get the splash screen's thread id with GetWindowThreadProcessId, sleep while IsWindow with splash screens handle returns true and then you should get the window you want with EnumThreadWindows

[Harry Hunt]

cool! I'll try that! thanks!