C#

dan neely wrote:

excel completely embedded

[DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "SetParent", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern IntPtr SetParent(IntPtr hwndChild, IntPtr hwndParent);

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Process p = Process.Start("Notepad.exe");
    p.WaitForInputIdle();
    SetParent(p.MainWindowHandle, panel1.Handle);
}

dan neely wrote:

or was just a stereotypical codethulu.

dan neely wrote:

Does that include things like merging the captured applications menus into the host?

DaveyM69 wrote:

Wow - I didn't know that was possible!

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) 
{
    Process p = Process.Start("Notepad.exe");
    p.WaitForInputIdle(); 
    SetParent(p.MainWindowHandle, panel1.Handle);
    SetWindowPos(
        p.MainWindowHandle,
        IntPtr.Zero,
        0, 0,
        panel1.Width, panel1.Height,
        0u);
}
[DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "SetParent", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern IntPtr SetParent(IntPtr hwndChild, IntPtr hwndParent);

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern bool SetWindowPos(
    IntPtr hWnd,
    IntPtr hWndInsertAfter,
    int X, int Y,
    int cx, int cy,
    uint uFlags);

DaveyM69 wrote:

The problem was Notepad remembers it's last size and location and it assumes that relative to the hwnd's top left.