Re: Run App only once
GT wrote:
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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From the OP
// Can't just bring the main window back because it doesn't
// restore any tools that are also minimised, so just flash the
// toolbar, so the user finds it again.
pWndChild->FlashWindow(TRUE);
Looks to me like an attempt to flash the window...
What is even weirder is that the OP casts the window to a CMainFrame*, and
why, exactly, a
window in some other process should be cast to a type in the current
process totally
escapes me.
This wasn't my code, just lifted from somewhere else, but casting the main
window to be a CMainFrame seems very logical because that's what type it
is - its another instance of the same app, so therefore is the same class!
GT:
But you are accesing it via the OS, which knows nothing about CMainFrame
(or C++ for that matter). The OS ::FindWindow() returns an HWND, for
which CWnd::FindWindow() creates a temporary CWnd object. But it is not
a CMainFrame.
If you were to use dynamic_cast then you would find the cast would fail.
And if you use C-style cast and try to call some CMainFrame member
function like GetActiveDocument() then your code will crash.
In this situation MFC is not helping any; I would just use
::FindWindow() and ::GetLastActivePopup() from the SDK.
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