Tracking the active application and window

[S. Brent Faulkner]

A "simple" window/application activation question...

If a user clicks on my application's main window how can I restore focus
and/or activation to the window which just lost activation?

To simplify my application I have a dialog with a button on it. When the
user clicks the button I want to perform some action and then restore focus
to where it was before the user clicked. It appears that WM_ACTIVATE is
only useful when the window being deactivated is within the same thread as
the window gaining activation. It also appears that sometimes the
WM_ACTIVATEAPP message received contains a NULL task handle (thread id).

Anyone have an idea how to do this?

Thanks.

--Brent
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S. Brent Faulkner
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[Ed Slingland]

Have you looked at WM_KILLFOCUS message?

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S. Brent Faulkner <br...@golden.net> wrote in article
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[S. Brent Faulkner]

Ed Slingland <--ed.sli...@inference.com> wrote in article
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> Have you looked at WM_KILLFOCUS message?
>

I'm considering installing a windows hook to track WM_KILLFOCUS (and
possibly WM_SETFOCUS) messages, but was wondering if there was a simpler
way than using a hook.

--Brent