I am interested in assistance in doing the following with a winform application I am writing to open in a tab an .exe in c# in the Visual Studios 2010 IDE.
I'm currently able to open the program via button click in the desired tab using the following code:
string str = @"-INSERT FILEPATH HERE-";//took file path out as i have a few exes i'm wanting to add.
Process process = new Process();
process.StartInfo.FileName = str;
process.Start();
now how can i make it so this executable opens as the tab or in a tab, in my winform? I'm open to suggestions to doing either case.
SOLVED:
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Threading;
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern bool MoveWindow(IntPtr hwnd, int x, int y, int cx, int cy, bool repaint);
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern IntPtr SetParent(IntPtr hWndChild, IntPtr hWndNewParent);
public GUI()
{
// Initialize form fieds
InitializeComponent();
openProgram()
}
private void openProgram()
{
process.StartInfo.FileName = "-filepathhere-";
process.Start();
IntPtr ptr = IntPtr.Zero;
while ((ptr = process.MainWindowHandle) == IntPtr.Zero) ;
SetParent(process.MainWindowHandle, trackerPanel.Handle);
MoveWindow(process.MainWindowHandle, 0, 0, this.Width - 90, this.Height, true);
}
You could use the SetParent api to set the parent of the executable's window. Add a panel to your TabControl and use the code below to assign the parent of the executable window to that of the panel.
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern IntPtr SetParent(IntPtr hWndChild, IntPtr hWndNewParent);
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var process = new Process();
process.StartInfo.FileName = "notepad.exe";
process.Start();
SetParent(process.MainWindowHandle, panel1.Handle);
}
To remove the window from the panel, use the same code but set the parent handle as IntPtr.Zero
SetParent(process.MainWindowHandle, IntPtr.Zero);
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