Re: Force warning into focus ?

From: Rob Kennedy (me3_at_privacy.net)
Date: 05/26/04

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    Walker wrote:
    > I have found a funny (and quite dirty :-) way around this.
    >
    > If an application minimizes and then restores itself it is now in the
    > foreground.
    > It does not look pretty and it takes a second or so, but it works.

    Why solve it through dirty tricks when you can do it the right way?
    You've already said that your applications are communicating with each
    other -- cooperating, I assume. That's exactly the scenario that
    AllowSetForegroundWindow and SetForegroundWindow's new behavior are
    designed for.

    > This can deep down Microsoft have something to do with that the minimized
    > app. asks the system to bring a form into focus ?

    Um, would you like to try writing the beginning of that sentence again?

    I wonder whether the behavior you've witnessed is unique to Borland
    products or whether it applies to all programs. (Applications made with
    Delphi and C++ Builder have a different concept of what a program's
    "main" window is.) 

    -- 
Rob
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