rguggisberg asked a question.
Bring Suite Window to Front
My Suite Window is often hidden behind other windows. How do I bring it to the front? I tried an InstallScript event.
export prototype SetWindowFocus(OBJECT);
function SetWindowFocus(oTest)
HWND hMain;
begin
hMain = GetWindowHandle( HWND_INSTALL );
SetForegroundWindow( hMain );
end;
I know it is getting executed because if I put it in 'OnBegin' (illegal because there is no UI yet) it exits the install. If I put it in OnStaging or later it seemingly does nothing.
OK.. it seems like the proper place for it to be scheduled is as a 'Page Entered Event' on the InstallWelcome page (at least for a first install). So it is executing in the proper place according to the log. Now to make it the above script actually work :(
Thanks for any ideas!
What is causing the Suite window to be in the background is that I launch a bat file in OnBegin to check versions of 3rd party apps, SQL instances, etc and log info about all of that. In the bat I PAUSE if there are any items that I need to warn the user about. So if I PAUSE, the Suite window remains in the background even after closing the bat file. If I do not PAUSE the Suite window is in the foreground. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks
I then created a Events Action named SetWindowFocus and run that action as a 'Page Entered' event on the appropriate Wizard Page.
Thanks Phil!
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
export prototype SetWindowFocus(OBJECT);
prototype USER.AttachThreadInput( HWND, LONG, BOOL );
prototype USER.GetWindowThreadProcessId( HWND, LONG );
prototype KERNEL.GetCurrentThreadId();
prototype HWND USER.GetForegroundWindow();
function SetWindowFocus(oExtension)
HWND hMain;
begin
hMain = FindWindow("32770", "");
if (hMain != NULL) then
SendMessage (hMain, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_RESTORE, 0);
endif;
//Attach foreground window thread to installation thread
AttachThreadInput( GetWindowThreadProcessId( GetForegroundWindow(), NULL ), GetCurrentThreadId(), TRUE );
//Bring to foreground
SetWindowPos( hMain, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE );
SetForegroundWindow( hMain );
//Detach the attached thread
AttachThreadInput( GetWindowThreadProcessId( GetForegroundWindow(), NULL ), GetCurrentThreadId(), FALSE );
SetFocus( hMain );
end;
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
regards
Markus
Thank you for sharing !
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Seconded! Useful bit of code to keep in your backpocket. Thank you.