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When I'm running lots of eviews jobs on a script, Eviews always makes itself the active window upon starting a new job while I'm doing something else. Is there any to disable this?

That's somewhat surprising.

Do you know what sort of things in your program cause it to steal focus from other applications?

I mean if I have a script (perl example):

foreach $program (@long_list_of_programs) {
system( eviews.exe $program)
}

... the each time eviews is executed the the $program becoms the active window in windows. So if I have 1000 jobs on a script that each take 10 seconds it will make my desktop unusable. Is there a way to execute an eviews program in the background? ... or at lease not become the active window?

Thanks,

Luke

Ah, I see.

I don't believe EViews has a method to launch itself (apart from during a COM call) minimized or hidden. We usually tell users to use Windows to launch EViews minimized (start /min if run from a command prompt, for example), if that's what they want to do. I have no idea if that's possible from within a perl script.