Change active window to exe called with command prompt

[WHunter]

Hi, I am trying to send keyboard commands to an exe I open with systemexec. Once I open the exe, Labview regains active window status so the keystrokes are sent to the LabView window instead. How do I make the called exe the active window?? I am using Labview 12.

[peper2001]

Hi,

From what i understand, what you want to do is set a window frontmost.

There is an interesting thread on that topic:

http://lavag.org/topic/12751-how-do-you-make-your-application-window-frontmost/#entry76322

The two vi's posted by "Bean" worked great for me after some minor modifications.

The only bottleneck is that you need to know the exact name of the window you want to set frontmost.

Regards

[WHunter]

Ok, I've figured out how to make the called window active. Now I need to get its window handle so I can send the keyboard commands to that window. As written, the commands don't go to "cprog.exe"

[WHunter]

Ok, I've figured out how to make the called window active. Now I need to get its window handle so I can send the keyboard commands to that window. As written, the commands don't go to "cprog.exe"