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restoring a minimized window

i need to restore an external app's minimized window whose handle i know,
from within a different running app.

how would i do that?

thanks for any help

ray
Sep 24 '07 #1
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ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Brian
"ray well" <no****@nospam.comwrote in message news:u2**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>i need to restore an external app's minimized window whose handle i know,
from within a different running app.

how would i do that?

thanks for any help

ray

Sep 24 '07 #2
thanks brian,

would u know what the value of SW_SHOWNORMAL is?
>>ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Sep 24 '07 #3
If you look at winuser.h file, it is defined as 1
"ray well" wrote:
thanks brian,

would u know what the value of SW_SHOWNORMAL is?
>ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOWNORMAL);


Sep 25 '07 #4

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