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CloseDosWindow - Close a Ms-Dos console window
[ All Languages » VB »  Windows]

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Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal _
  lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal _
  hWnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _
  lParam As Any) As Long
Const WM_CLOSE = &H10

' close a MS-DOS window
'
' if Caption is omitted, it randomly closes one
' of the opened Dos windows

Sub CloseDosWindow(Optional Caption As Variant)
  Dim hWnd As Long
  
  ' if argument is omitted, don't care for window caption
  If IsMissing(Caption) Then Caption = vbNullString
  
  ' find the window
  hWnd = FindWindow("ConsoleWindowClass", Caption)
  ' close it by sending it a WM_CLOSE message
  If hWnd Then
    SendMessage hWnd, WM_CLOSE, 0, ByVal 0
  End If

End Sub


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