Re: Need to dock to a form in an another application

From: Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] (hirf-spam-me-here_at_gmx.at)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:21:28 +0100

"Erik Edlund" <erik@norrsken.nu> schrieb:
>I use VB Express and I need to dock my form closely to an another
>application's form. I don't have access to that applications code, only to
>it's database. My application is doing calculations based on the database
>and I need to make the user visually aware of which data they are
>manipulating. Is it possible to iterate through the visible forms, identify
>them and return their size and location?

There is no managed solution to do that. You'll have to use p/invoke
('Declare'/'DllImportAttribute') the 'FindWindow'/'GetWindowRect' functions
in order to get the location/size of the other window and then move your
window accordingly. 

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