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[filemakerdev]

I am building little applet to allow manipulation of windows (minimize, maximize, size & position, etc.). It works fine for parent (application) windows -- the first parameter is the partial or complete window title.

However, I can't figure out how to do the same for child windows.

Let's take a simple example... say the app (parent) window name is "FileMaker Pro" and the child window name is "Test.fp5", and I want to POSITION the child window at TOP=100, LEFT=100, WIDTH=400 AND HEIGHT=400.

Let's assume that the parent window is already maximized, and that the child window may or may not currently be maximized. Of course, under Windows 2000 at any rate, if the child window is maximized, then the app title bar will read "FileMaker Pro - [Test.fp5]"

Here are the parameters I'm passing:

"Test.fp5" position 100 100 400 400

Here's my code...

[Tommy]

In order to obtain a handle to the child window of another window, you'll have to use
@WINDOW(<top level window handle>,CHILD).

Once you have that handle, you could use @WINDOW(<child window handle>,FIRST)
and @WINDOW(<child window handle>,NEXT) to browse through all child windows of
that top level window.

[filemakerdev]

I appreciate the reply... in case it's not glaringly obvious, I'm definitely a VDS newbie.

So, can I specify the <top level window handle> by using a window title as per the code in my original message? Or do I have to use the Class Name? Because I'm trying to come up with a scenario where my end users can specify the title of the child window and pass that as a parameter.

Given that I'd like to be able to position a child window, would someone mind posting the code that would allow that to happen?

Reminder: parent window title = "FileMaker Pro"; child window title = "Test.fp5"

[SnarlingSheep]

If you know the title of the child window(or the user inputs it to your program) you just need to use @WINEXISTS(<child window title>). Something similar to your code:

[Tommy]

Actually the @winexists() function accepts a second parameter, which I wasn't aware of:

@WINEXISTS(<window>{, <child window>})

[filemakerdev]