SetForegroundWindow()
Alessandro Oddera
created the specified window into the foreground and activates the
window, it merely flash the window.
Do anyone know a way to puts the thread into the foreground, and
activates the window?
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On Tue, 04 Aug 1998 00:06:20 GMT, Alessandro Oddera wrote:
| The SetForegroundWindow don't work, it don't puts the thread that
| created the specified window into the foreground and activates the
| window, it merely flash the window.
|
| Do anyone know a way to puts the thread into the foreground, and
| activates the window?
The answer was posted a couple of days ago:
On Sun, 02 Aug 1998 14:39:23 -0700, in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
David Ching wrote:
| mdb...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
| >
| > In article <6ocl3f$n3d$1...@news.seed.net.tw>,
| > "kgb" <k...@iii.org.tw> wrote:
| >
| > > I have found that if I switch to another application's window after the
| > > WM_LBUTTONDOWN was sent, my
| > > window would not be brought to foregound instead it is been high light on
| > > the taskbar.
| > >
| >
|
| Problem here is Win98 (and NT 5) trying to be smart. If you have used
| the mouse or keyboard within the last n milliseconds, then try to do a
| SetForegroundWindow to a window of another task, Windows flashes the
| taskbar button instead of activating the window. The trick is to
| disable the feature prior to SetForegroundWindow(), then re-enabling it
| immediately so that it is transparent to your users:
|
| // Save specified timeout period...
| DWORD dwTimeoutMS;
| SystemParametersInfo (SPI_GETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT, 0, &dwTimeoutMS, 0);
|
| // ... then set it to zero to disable it
| SystemParametersInfo (SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT, 0, (PVOID) 0, 0);
|
| // Do the SetForegroundWindow
| SetForegroundWindow (hwndDesiredWindow);
|
| // ... then set it back
| SystemParametersInfo (SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT, 0, (PVOID)
| dwTimeoutMS, 0);
|
|
| --
| David Ching, Windows Consultant
| DC Software Design, Inc.
| http://www.dcsoft.com
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Alessandro Oddera
I don't know the values for
SPI_GETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT
and for
SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT
do anyone tell me these values?
Thank you.
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>
> I don't know the values for
> SPI_GETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT
> and for
> SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT
> do anyone tell me these values?
>
> Thank you.
>
// New flags for Win98/NT5 not yet defined in VC 5 winuser.h
#define SPI_GETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT 0x2000
#define SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT 0x2001