How do I find the main window of an application other than my own?

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This is my first post so please bear with me.

I've been using magicJack for a couple of months now and I like it except for the annoying Call window that pops-up every time you make or receive a call.

My question is: how do I find that window and hide it? My gut feeling is that this job is better done in C++ than C#. Maybe I'm naive but I think a C++ app would be smaller and faster.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated...

Posted 16-Nov-09 21:15pm

denstrahan

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Johann Gerell · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-16T21:35:00

First, there's no such thing as a definitive "main window". You're probably talking about "owner-less top level window", which is usually called "main window" if an application only has one of them.

Basically, first try a FindWindow(NULL, windowTitle) to get its HWND and then use that one to either ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_HIDE) or MoveWindow(hWnd, &someRectOffTheScreen) or SetWindowPos(hWnd, &someRectOffTheScreen, someOtherMagicFlagsToKeepItReallyHidden) or maybe all of them!

But none of those can guarantee that the app doesn't bring itself back in a timed loop or something.