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From: davidds@microsoft.UUCP (David D'SOUZA)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Function to push a window behind other windows
Message-ID: <59561@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 90 23:55:43 GMT
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Reply-To: davidds@microsoft.UUCP (David D'SOUZA)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <5922@hsv3.UUCP> jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) writes:
>OK, I'll bite:  how can an iconic application get a window handle to the
>'text line' underneath it, so that it can bring it to the front along with
>its icon?

Windows should do this automatically. If you bring the main window to
the front, the title should come with it.  The only problem was moving
the main window and the icon title doesn't move with it.  You can fix
this in a system independent way by hiding the main window, moving it,
and then showing it.

The nice thing about the Windows API is that it is appearing
everywhere.  Your windows knowledge is transferrable to other versions
of Windows (Multimedia, Handwriting, the OS/2 SMK, and future windows
environments).  The common base between these platforms is the
documented Windows API.  An app written to the windows api should work
on all these other environments.  An app written to the undocumented
API of one environment probably won't work elsewhere.


-- Dave