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Dark GDK / Minimising the Window/Restarting the Program

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Ninjateck
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Posted: 16th Feb 2010 17:56
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Hey, Im trying to create a program that launches other applications, and i want it to reopen after the launched application closes. Either that or minimise when an app is launched from it and then maximise again when that app is closed. Is there a way to do this from within darkGDK ? or will i have to use an external library ?
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Pilz X Schizo
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Posted: 16th Feb 2010 18:32
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You can use dbExecuteFile() to launch another file/program, though not really sure how you would get focus back to your program once the other one has finished. If the other program that your trying to run is also something you made then you could make a "dummy" file when you execute the other program and then when you close that program you could delete it then just have your original program check to see if the dummy file exists to maximize the window again. Someone else may have a better solution to regain focus but that would be my first guess at one.
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Ninjateck
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If this isnt possible, is it possible to open another window on top of my GDK window that dosent interfere with it ?
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JTK
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What you want is perfectly doable... Checkout the FindWindow() function of the WIN32-API...

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