No, this isn't really possible unless the external software has some sort of ActiveX control interface or .NET component which you can embed into the relevant control on the front panel.
The closest thing I can think of is use the windows library functions to resize/move the other application's window relative to your application.
(I also doubt it's possible to do in other languages...)
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