How do I make Animate Window effect on other windows, ie. IE window

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Dear All,
I use below code to get the ForegroundWindow (selected window)
and make it has fade out effect

CWnd *hwnd=GetForegroundWindow();
hwnd->AnimateWindow(1000,AW_HIDE|AW_BLEND);

but It only apply to the dialog I created.
other windows like IE, caculator.exe or even the other dialog made by myself woundn't have this effect?

What's going wrong with that?

Thanks all

Posted 19-Feb-14 20:25pm

Rex Miao

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Feb-14 2:34am

Here is my good advice: those are not the applications you developed, so they are not yours, don't touch them.
Do you really have nothing more useful to do?
—SA

enhzflep 20-Feb-14 3:04am

Did you read the documentation?

Specifically, the last point in this list:

If the function fails, the return value is zero. The function will fail in the following situations:

■ If the window uses the window region. Windows XP: This does not cause the function to fail.
■ If the window is already visible and you are trying to show the window.
■ If the window is already hidden and you are trying to hide the window.
■ If there is no direction specified for the slide or roll animation.
■ When trying to animate a child window with AW_BLEND.
■ If the thread does not own the window. Note that, in this case, AnimateWindow fails but GetLastError returns ERROR_SUCCESS.

Malli_S 21-Feb-14 8:53am

My 5.

enhzflep 21-Feb-14 9:39am

Thank-you. :)

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