How to change input focus to a browser?

Many thanks Ali.

I have been struggling a lot with this one and in the end I had to use FindWindow too.

My first attempt was:

<code>
if ( CreateProcess ( "\\...Firefox.exe ... , &pi ) )
{
WaitForInputIdle ( pi.hProcess ); // to let process fire up its io
// however - the window is not visible at this point.
// It can take several seconds for the browser window to show
// so waitforinputidle is not enough for valid synch
Sleep ( using various values ) ;
GetGUIThreadInfo ( pi.dwThreadId , &g );
//g.hwndActive is supposed to hold the handle of the outermost
// browser window at this point but did not always do so,
//50% of the time it returned NULL
}
</code>

Several iterations later I tried:

<code>
if ( CreateProcess ( "Mozilla Firefox ... , &pi ) )
{
WaitForInputIdle ( pi.hProcess ); // to let process fire up its io
// waitforinputidle above is probably redundant
hbrowser = NULL ;
while ( hbrowser == NULL ) // safetvest to stop looping not shown
{
hbrowser = FindWindow ( 0 , "Mozilla Firefox" ) ;
Sleep ( 1000 ) ;
} ;
// hbrowser now contains a valid outermost browser window
// GetGUIThreadInfo is not needed, but when I called it here
// it worked most of the time.
}
</code>

My plan was then to force the main process to the foreground and let the user choose modes and so on and then force the focus and foreground back to the browser. I used functions GetCurrentThreadId(), GetCurrentThread, BringWindowToTop (), SetForegroundWindow(), AttachTheadInput and SetFocus for this. Really way too complicated for a simple task!

I can log in to a site from Firefox using SendInput with keys only. Haven't tried mouse input or Ctrl and Alt keys yet. Also haven't tried other browsers yet.

Thanks

and Oops, I actually called my own function waitforinputidle ( piid ) that contained WaitForInputIdle ( pi.hProcess, INFINITE ) plus all the error checking that goes with it.

So what I found is that WaitForInputIdle returns before the process window is visible. Waiting by looping on FindWindow handles the synchronization though.

BTW: how do I bracket code? I tried <code> and </code> but that didn't work