Is it possible to start a new process and set it’s main window as a child window of my MDI application?
The scenario is: I have a MDI application and I want to start Adobe Acrobat as a child window of my MDI application.
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Is it possible to start a new process and set it’s main window as a child window of my MDI application?
The scenario is: I have a MDI application and I want to start Adobe Acrobat as a child window of my MDI application.
In theory, I believe it’s possible using SetParent.
However, in practice, this may be a bit more difficult than you’d expect. Also, you’ll need to do work to syncronize the styles, etc.
Just a thought, though – If you are trying to embed Acrobat Reader (not full Acrobat), you may be able to do this easier by embedding a webcontrol and having the acrobat reader plugin used in that…
Here are some samples of people making this work (at least partially):
Related SO question with workarounds for specific issues.
CodeProject article using SetParent
Experts-exchange question about embedding a java app in a win32 app.