'Find a window knowing it's caption using FindWindow API

by Karthikeyan (187 Submissions)
Category: Windows API Call/Explanation
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Tue 23^rd January 2001
Date Added: Mon 8^th February 2021
Rating: (1 Votes)

API Declarations
Private Declare Function FlashWindow Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal bInvert As Long) As Long Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32.dll" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)

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Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim dwnd As Long
Dim rval As Long
Dim i As Integer
'Find a window having caption VBFinished
dwnd = FindWindow(vbNullString, "VBFinished")
If dwnd Then 'If Found
For i = 1 To 10 ' Flash the found window 5 times
rval = FlashWindow(dwnd, 1) 'Flash window
Sleep 300 'Delay
Next
rval = FlashWindow(dwnd, 0) 'Bring to normal
End If
End Sub

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