How to Bring "External App/Programs" Window to Front using VBA ?

[ajay1111]

How to bring window to front using the Caption/Title of the applications/Program ? The following code is used to get the Caption/Title of the application but when when Appactivate is used, it simply activates the External program but does not bring the Program's window to front or Maximize it.
So how can we bring "External Programs" Window to Front based on Caption/Title of the applications.

'App Activate
Private Declare PtrSafe Function apiGetClassName Lib "user32" Alias _
                "GetClassNameA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, _
                ByVal lpClassName As String, _
                ByVal nMaxCount As Long) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function apiGetDesktopWindow Lib "user32" Alias _
                "GetDesktopWindow" () As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function apiGetWindow Lib "user32" Alias _
                "GetWindow" (ByVal hWnd As Long, _
                ByVal wCmd As Long) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function apiGetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias _
                "GetWindowLongA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal _
                nIndex As Long) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function apiGetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias _
                "GetWindowTextA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal _
                lpString As String, ByVal aint As Long) As Long
Private Const mcGWCHILD = 5
Private Const mcGWHWNDNEXT = 2
Private Const mcGWLSTYLE = (-16)
Private Const mcWSVISIBLE = &H10000000
Private Const mconMAXLEN = 255
'App Activate

Sub xSelView()
    Dim xRg As Range
    Dim xStr As String
    Dim xStrLen As Long
    Dim xHandle As Long
    Dim xHandleStr As String
    Dim xHandleLen As Long, xHandleStyle As Long
    
    On Error Resume Next
    xHandle = apiGetWindow(apiGetDesktopWindow(), mcGWCHILD)
    Do While xHandle <> 0
        xStr = String$(mconMAXLEN - 1, 0)
        xStrLen = apiGetWindowText(xHandle, xStr, mconMAXLEN)
        If xStrLen > 0 Then
            xStr = Left$(xStr, xStrLen)
            xHandleStyle = apiGetWindowLong(xHandle, mcGWLSTYLE)
            If xHandleStyle And mcWSVISIBLE Then
                If InStr(1, xStr, "Powerpoint") <> 0 Then   'Activate Powerpoint window
                AppActivate (xStr)
                Exit Sub
                End If
            End If
        End If
        xHandle = apiGetWindow(xHandle, mcGWHWNDNEXT)
    Loop
End Sub

 

[Dan_W]

Seems like powerpoint has it's own thing...

PowPt.ActiveWindow.WindowState = ppWindowMaximized

Dave

I can't believe that - actually, I can.. turns out that the ppWindowMaximized constant = 3, apparently, but in Excel, it's different again:

xlMaximized

-4137

Maximized

What do you suppose the thinking was behind that decision??

 

[Dan_W]

Does that resolve your query?