Question

Is there a way to Minimize an external application that I don’t have control over from with-in my Delphi application?

for example notepad.exe, except the application I want to minimize will only ever have one instance.

Answer 1

You can use FindWindow to find the application handle and ShowWindow to minimize it.

var     Indicador :Integer; begin    // Find the window by Classname   Indicador := FindWindow(PChar('notepad'), nil);   // if finded   if (Indicador <> 0) then begin     // Minimize     ShowWindow(Indicador,SW_MINIMIZE);   end; end;