I have had success with GUI applicatins using CreateProcess(...) to launch
the application and EnumThreadWindows(...) to get the window handle but this
approach doesn't work for console programs.

I have come up with a solution but I want to get some feedback to find out
if there is a better way.
New Solution:
1) use ShellExecute(...) to launch the application
2) call EnumWindows(...)
3) in my EnumWindowsProc use GetWindowLong(...) to get the instance handle
of the current window and compare it with the one returned by
ShellExecute(...) to find the correct window handle.

My application takes the path of the app to launch as an argument so the
title of the new window may differ from time to time ruling out the use of
FindWindowEx(...) except as a replacement for EnumWindows(...) as a way of
enumerating the top level windows of  the class "ConsoleWindowClass".

Any suggestions are appreciated
Daniel

STARTUPINFO rStartupInfo = {0};
rStartupInfo.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
rStartupInfo.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE;
CreateProcess(..., &rStartupInfo, ...);

or maybe:

CreateProcess(..., CREATE_NO_WINDOW, ...);

1) Use ShellExecuteEx with SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS to get the handle of
the new process

2) WaitForInputIdle to let the new process initialise

3) EnumWindows and check the process of each window with
GetWindowThreadProcessId

- Jim

Thanks.