How to set focus on the next window after minimizing ?

[Yovav]

Dear Gurus.

How can I set the focus to the next open window after I minimize some other window ?

For example:
I have the following apps open: IE, Word, Notepad
When I minimize - Notepad is going to the task bar,
At this point I lose the focus and the other open windows cannot be minimized

(My program do minimize the current window in focus when I click something)


This is what I tried:

GetForegroundWindow()->ShowWindow(SW_SHOWMINIMIZED);
Sleep(1000); // Let it minimize ?
::GetWindow(GetForegroundWindow()->m_hWnd, GW_HWNDNEXT);


Any ideas ?

[Yovav]

OK, I partially managed to do it with the following code:

GetForegroundWindow()->ShowWindow(SW_SHOWMINIMIZED);

CWnd* pCurrentWindow;
POINT pt;

GetCursorPos(&pt);
pCurrentWindow = WindowFromPoint(pt);
pCurrentWindow->SetForegroundWindow();


The problem is that it will only get the focus of windows behind the cursor (mouse)

Any idea how to get the next window regardless to the cursor location ?

[kellogs]

....
EnumWindows(&EnumWindowsProc, (LONG_PTR)this); //second param is the param that our callback below will receive
...

#include <windowsx.h>
BOOL CALLBACK EnumWindowsProc (HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam)
{
_if (current hwnd is top level)
ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_MINIMIZE);
return TRUE;
}

hth

[Yovav]

Thanks for the tip,

it causes all the windows to close,

What would be a good way to detect the current active window ?


I tried this:

if (GetActiveWindow() == hwnd)
ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_SHOWMINIMIZED);

if ((GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE) & WS_ACTIVECAPTION))
ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_SHOWMINIMIZED);


?

[LOOSER_007]

Do you want to minimize all the opened windows or some of the selected windows....???

[Yovav]

Just the next window that gets the focus after the last one was minimized,

I was using this:
GetForegroundWindow()->ShowWindow(SW_SHOWMINIMIZED);
// Put the focus on the next window under the cursor
GetCursorPos(&pt);
pCurrentWindow = WindowFromPoint(pt);
pCurrentWindow->SetForegroundWindow();

But its only good as long as the cursor (or mouse) is on the same area of the window,

for example - if you move the mouse to the right top corner - it will not minimize anything else (just the desktop icons) but not the other open windows...