How to check if Form is active

[Mr_Gee]

I hope someone can help me,
Is there a way to have the program check if it is on the foreground?

I want to make a program which will open a 2nd program, once that 2nd program is finished/closed the focus should go back to my app and it needs to do something else.

I have tried with Form1.Focus (= true) and Control("Form1").Focus = true
But I cannot seem to get it working.
I also thought i might be able to use a Textbox for the focusing part but that
also didn't do anything.

The workaround would be to have a MsgBox popup which the user needs to click..
but that would only be a last resort ...

I could use some
Thanks

[Erel]

See the ShellAndWait example: http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/code-samples-tips/2040-shell-wait.html
It will make your application wait for the second application to end.
If I remember correctly your application will be brought to the foreground.
There are other solutions available, so please reply if it didn't help.

[Mr_Gee]

it works like a charm, thanks for your help Erel

[pmu5757]

Hello,
Is it also possible to wait for the end of a B4PPC command like sound?
I would like to wait for the end of the ".wav" file before doing something else.

Thank you.

[Erel]

If you know the length of the wave file you can add Sleep(...) after playing the sound.
If I remember correctly the Hekkus sound library allows you to wait for the sound to end.

[pmu5757]

I don't know the length of the wave file,
so I'm gonna try the Hekkus lib
Thank you Erel.