Thanks....I will TRY and convert this to Pascal...should not be too hard
tho....thanks.
Jeremy Coulter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Nello Sestini
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 1:45 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Focus not returning
>
>
> Corey/Jeremy
>
> Corey wrote ...
>
> >I posted some code here recently that works around this by running the
> >restore code in the context of the current process. If you want I'll
> repost
> >it... I think it'll solve the problem.
>
> Here is (I think) the post Corey refers to:
>
> -ns
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corey Murtagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 14:36
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Bring an App to the front
>
>
> > Jason Coley wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to bring an Apps window to the front, I have an
> OLE handle
> > to a window (Word) and I want to bring that window to the front, whats
> > the best way to do this?
>
> As Patrick mentioned, BringWindowToFront is the official method, but it
> won't work as expected on Win98/2K/ME. On those platforms when a process
> which is not the current owner of the forground window calls
> BringWindowToFront it just flashes the icon on the task bar. To
> get around
> that you have to run the code in the context of the current foreground
> process. Here's some C++ code that I've been using which does it:
>
> bool ForceWindowToFront(HWND hWnd)
> {
> bool Result;
> DWORD ForegroundWindowThreadID;
> DWORD WindowThreadID;
> if (hWnd == GetForegroundWindow())
> Result = true;
> else
> {
> ForegroundWindowThreadID =
> GetWindowThreadProcessId(GetForegroundWindow(), NULL);
> WindowThreadID = GetWindowThreadProcessId(hWnd, NULL);
> if (ForegroundWindowThreadID != WindowThreadID)
> {
> AttachThreadInput(ForegroundWindowThreadID, WindowThreadID, true);
> Result = SetForegroundWindow(hWnd);
> AttachThreadInput(ForegroundWindowThreadID, WindowThreadID, false);
> }
> else
> Result = SetForegroundWindow(hWnd);
> ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_RESTORE);
> }
> return Result;
> }
>
> --
> Corey Murtagh
> The Electric Monk
> "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"
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