Hi, I have spent enough time on this. It seems like it should be simple but I cannot get it. I have a program that starts an application from the Shell (I need to do it this way so that some switches are enabled at start of the app). Anyway, I can get the instance handle and the window handle, but how do I get the Application Object of the running app. Some notes... another instance of the application may be running at the same time, and I need to allow this. I have tried starting the app with CreateObject, but I cannot control the switches this way. I am brainstorming like maybe I should force the window caption and try to grab the app this way... Any help? Thanks ahead of time.
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How do I get ApplicationObject from Handle
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FYI, I have found out that there is no direct way of accomplishing this. Some things you can do is to use GetObject (gets the first one created) and keep closing them until you get to the one you want. I chose a different route by controlling the way the application opens by altering the registry, then use CreateObject to start the app, and then reset the registry. A little bit of a hack version, but it works well.
Another option is to talk directy to some of the COM tables. Have a look at GetRunningObjectTable which supplies a pointer to the IRunningObjectTable interface. This latter interface will aloow you to enumerate all the running objects and then to return an 'object pointer' to any one of them that you select
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