Bring a windows program to the front

[rcard53762]

I searched for this but didn't find anything that answered my question.

Is it possible to control programatically which windows programs are at the front?

So if I was running a vi (which is on top) and I needed to automatically bring a running windows program to the front??

Then when I was done bring the running vi back to the front.

How can that be done?

Thanks

Rick.

[Viper]

I do this all the time. You use Windows API calls to do this. Using Code Interface Nodes to user32.dll will get the job done. The shortest path is to get a copy of the G Toolbox by George Zou. Just search for his name on the forums here. It's a cheap investment and it saved my bacon.

Norm

[rcard53762]

OK thanks I was really hoping for an code example to look at.

Any chance you have one to share?? 

[jcarmody]

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-4551

[rcard53762 · Accepted solution]

I downloaded both versions and the 8.6 version crashed my Labview every time. 

But the 2010 version seemed to work OK.

Thanks for the help.