Hide/Show another application window

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Re: Hide/Show another application window by Courage (Parson) on May 30, 2002 at 07:30 UTC
This greatly depends on your OS, also depends on permissions to do that. Win32 has module `Win32::GutTest` which has enough functions to find and control applcation window. As another way if your application implements IDisplatch interface, you can manage it by using Win32::OLE. Can't give you help for other OSes Good luck!	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Hide/Show another application window by Biker (Priest) on May 29, 2002 at 18:36 UTC
That has to be done client-side. I.e. JavaScript. Everything went worng, just as foreseen.	[reply]
Re(2): Hide/Show another application window by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on May 30, 2002 at 01:34 UTC
Perl != CGI, Biker. :-) And to the original poster: I doubt that it's particularly easy to do, and it's certainly platform dependent. You'd pretty much have to go through the window system: at best, you'd be able to ask "which process has the input focus?"; at worst, you'd have to have the target process send yours a message when it receives (and loses) focus. I hope there's an easier, cleaner way, but I don't know of one. `-- The hell with paco, vote for Erudil! :wq`	[reply]