Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!slcdec!hippo!f1.n6000.z2.fidonet.org!f204.n208.z1.fidonet.org!Herbert_Woelffer From: Herbert_Woelffer@f204.n208.z1.fidonet.org (Herbert Woelffer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: RE: Re: DDE/TASKS Questions Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 91 00:20:57 GMT Reply-To: Herbert_Woelffer%f204.n208.z1@hippo.dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Herbert Woelffer) Organization: -=BerthaBoard=- Manteca, Ca. 209-823-0093 [HST] Lines: 16 Comment-To: James_Bell@f1.n6000.z2.fidonet.org (James Bell) > >Would the GetFreeSpace() function be useful in determining if Excel is >done loading? I dunno, that's a weird one, but maybe Win won't report >a change in available mem until the app is done loading (?)... >Is there something you could do with the fact that the focus goes to >excel once its loaded? (if you specify it to). >As for that task list, can't you just cycle through using GetNextWindow >to get handles until you get back to the first handle? Never tried it >myself though... >Hope some (any?) of this helps... >JB It does would have never thought about GetFreeSpace. Will try it out at work and see. Will also test your second idea. Thanks for the input.