Is there a way to determine if an app has been "minimized"?

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In the PPC when an app has been "minimized" it really is just hidden (or so it appears). There does not seem to be any method I have found to make the app aware that this has occured. Does any one know how this status information can be obtained?
 
Sounds like you're looking for a "smart minimize" event. Well there is no
event to handle this directly you might be able to handle this to a certain
degree of satisfaction as indicated in the following thread.
http://www.google.ca/groups?hl=en&l...&selm=O04i42z2DHA.2460%40TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl

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Ralph Flaugher said:
In the PPC when an app has been "minimized" it really is just hidden (or
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so it appears). There does not seem to be any method I have found to make
the app aware that this has occured. Does any one know how this status
information can be obtained?
 
Thanks, that helped a lot, but I still don't have a
solution. Do you know if I can start a background thread
and check the status of something in order to determine
when the smart minimize has occurred? I have tried
checking the visble and enabled properties but they don't
seem to work. Perhaps there is something I can use via a
Win32 call. Is there an article anywhere on exactly what
occurs during a smart minimize procedure?

Ralph Flaugher
 
Polling on a thread might be a little extreme. But, to be honest, I haven't
come across a real good solution to this problem. I don't know of an article
that would be of help in this situation, however, if you poke around on MSDN
you might be able to turn up some more info on this issue, or even google
search newsgroups to see if someone has figured out a more concrete
solution.
 
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