1. RE: Bring window to front
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Parslow (PatRat) [mailto:patrat at rat-software.com]
>
> Hi,
> Anyone know of a good way to bring a win32lib window to the
> front (this is when
> another application has focus)? setFocus doesn't seem to work, I guess
> I could use SetWindowPos to make the window HWND_TOPMOST then set it
> back normal, but that's a bit messy...
Your best bet is probably SetForeGroundWindow, in user32.dll. From
win32.hlp:
BOOL SetForegroundWindow(
HWND hwnd // handle of window to bring to foreground
);
Remarks
The foreground window is the window at the top of the Z order. It is the
window that the user is working with. The system assigns a slightly higher
priority to the thread that created the foreground window than it does to
other threads.
SetForegroundWindow activates a window and forces the thread that created
the window into the foreground.
An application should call SetForegroundWindow if it wants to put itself
into the foreground. A good example is a debugger when it hits a breakpoint.
Unlike SetForegroundWindow, the SetActiveWindow function activates a window,
but it only brings the window to the foreground if the window is owned by
the thread making the SetActiveWindow call.
Matt Lewis
