i have a webproject to work on and it requires quite a few applications, windows explorers, etc. to work on..
what i was wondering is, if i can open my applications, like shelling them, but in a tab control, so when i start my app, it has firefox loaded in tabpage1, notepad ++ in tabpage2, graphics program in 3, and so on... that way they're always in a set order, which is sometimes hard to do with the taskbar..
trujade..
this is what i have so far:
<icode>
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Public Class Form1
Private Const WM_SYSCOMMAND As Long = &H112
Private Const SC_MAXIMIZE As Long = &HF030 ' Maximize window
Private Const SC_MINIMIZE As Long = &HF020 ' Minimize window
Private Const SC_CLOSE As Long = &HF060 ' Close window
Declare Auto Function SetParent Lib "user32" (ByVal HWNDChild As IntPtr, _
ByVal HWNDNewParent As IntPtr) As IntPtr
<DllImport("User32.dll")> _
Public Shared Function SetForegroundWindow(ByVal Hwnd As IntPtr) As Boolean
End Function
<DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet:=CharSet.Auto)> _
Public Shared Function SendMessage(ByVal hWnd As Integer, ByVal msg As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByVal lParam As IntPtr) As Integer
End Function
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal Sender As System.Object, _
ByVal E As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim PR As Process = Process.Start("notepad")
PR.WaitForInputIdle()
SetParent(PR.MainWindowHandle, TabControl1.TabPages(0).Handle)
SetForegroundWindow(PR.MainWindowHandle)
SendMessage(PR.MainWindowHandle, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MAXIMIZE, 0)
End Sub
End Class
</icode>
what this does is open notepad in tabcontrol.. works fine.. but, when i try to load a different app like firefox, or any other app, i can't seem to figure it out how...
do reply if you know how to fix this code in order to open one of my apps in the tabcontrol..
thanx..
trujade..
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