OpenEuphoria

Re[2]: Bring window to front

• Posted by "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" <patrat at rat-software.com> May 21, 2001
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> 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

That's exactly what I want to do, but it doesn't seem to work....

Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
Rat Software
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