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    <p>In my VBA application I start IExplore process with:</p> <pre><code>Shell sIE, vbMaximizedFocus </code></pre> <p>Now I need to resize created window. For that I can use SetWindowPos function, which takes a handle to the window as one of the arguments. And I don't have that handle...</p> <p>I would use FindWindowLike function (which goes threw windows, compares caption with pattern and returns array of handles of windows with matching caption), but I cann't rely on window caption. I cann't just resize all of the IE windows also.</p> <p>So, I was thinking of using SOMETHING that would give me a handle of a window to the process I just ran. Shell does not provide this.</p> <p>I have some example code, how to do this in C++ using CoCreateInstance function:</p> <pre><code> CoCreateInstance(CLSID_InternetExplorer, NULL, CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER, IID_IWebBrowser2, (void**)&amp;m_pBrowser); if (m_pBrowser) { pom = buffer; m_pBrowser-&gt;put_Visible(VARIANT_TRUE); m_pBrowser-&gt;Navigate(pom, &amp;(_variant_t(flaga)), &amp;vDummy, &amp;vDummy, &amp;vDummy); m_pBrowser-&gt;get_HWND((long *)&amp;hWnd); if (hWnd != NULL) { ... ... </code></pre> <p>I would've port this to VBA, but I'm not so sure, what to put for fourth parameter:</p> <blockquote> <p>riid [in] Reference to the identifier of the interface to be used to communicate with the object.</p> </blockquote> <p>Well I don't know witch interface I should pass... I'm not even sure if I can use it in VBA.</p> <p>So. Is there a way to execute process, which would provide me a handle to it's window?</p>
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