Detecting msgbox in Background

[Eric Kelderman]

Hi

I like to detect the precense of a msgbox (possibly flashing) visualy behind my active application.

The situation:
My foreground application is touchscreen and without keyboard.
The app covers the whole screenarea so no taskbar is not visible.

As I send printjobs in the background, possible printer related errors are poping up behind my application.

Now I need to detect if these error's are present.

Has someone solved this situation before?

Any help greatly welcom

Thanks

Eric Kelderman


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[Wayne Diamond]

there's probably a few ways to do it, but one way might be to set a timer that calls FindWindow()

DIM hFound&
hFound& = FindWindow("", "Finished printing") '<- window caption

hFound will hold the handle to the window, or 0 if it failed/couldnt find the window

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[Semen Matusovski]

Eric --
1) Try to use %WS_EX_TOPMOST style for your dialog.
2) Also you can (by timer) detect, which window is located for example, in the center of the screen.
Look WindowFromPoint + GetWindowThreadProcessId vs GetCurrentThreadId.


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