Runing a .exe inside a form

[HugoMendes]

I want to run a external application inside a window created in Qt. In Visual Studio using c# I can do:

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr SetParent(IntPtr hwc, IntPtr hwp);

Process p = Process.Start("calc.exe");
Thread.Sleep(1000);
p.WaitForInputIdle();
SetParent(p.MainWindowHandle, this.Handle);

This way calculator from Windows will be inside my application. Can we do the same with Qt?

[__jb__]

Hi HugoMandes,

see the Qt-Documentation -> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qprocess.html
It's also possible to get the window handle from the Qt Widget (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwidget.html#winId).

But in the past I want to embedded the Microsoft Excel inside the Qt application and this not work very well. I think it's easier to use only the microsoft eco system if possible - or a work around before embedding/drawing/event-handling a application inside a Qt application.

Regards,
Jakob