jacilore
19th July 2009 22:44 UTC

Help needed to call main program at foreground
Hi all:

I have what I hope is a very basic question, but I haven't been able to solve it by myself so I ask for your kind help.

I have created a NSIS installer using the Assistant, but the problem I have is that the call to the main aplication (TIMETUNNEL.EXE) makes it always being executed at background. (I cannot see it if there are other Windows opened unless I begin to close windows.)

As I understand it's always predefined in the MACRO MUI_FINISHPAGE_RUN "$INSTDIR\TIMETUNNEL.exe",

so, how could I tell the installer to execute it at foreground as the Active Window?

Thanks anticipated.

jpderuiter
19th July 2009 23:53 UTC

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=268418

jacilore
20th July 2009 21:51 UTC

Thank you very much. I will try that

Afrow UK
20th July 2009 22:10 UTC

Just a note. That will put your installer into an infinite loop if the user chooses not to run your app. Using a For loop would be more desirable:

  ${For} $R0 1 10
    FindWindow $R1 `` `my app title`
    ${If} ${Cmd} `IsWindow $R1`
      System::Call `user32::SetForegroundWindow(i R0)`
      ${Break}
    ${EndIf}
    Sleep 1000
  ${Next}

jacilore
20th July 2009 22:21 UTC

Thanks a lot. I'm trying your code, AfroUK. Actually the other one gave some errors while compiling.

I will write in 10 minutes to tell the result.

Regards

jacilore
20th July 2009 22:32 UTC

It worked fine!!. Thanks a lot to all for your help.