Never mind, I found something that works! I use this instead: if (Form.ActiveForm != null)
MSDN says: "A Form that represents the currently active form, or a null reference if there is no active form." So that seems good to me. Stifu wrote: > > Me again, for the same problem. > > this.ActiveControl.Focused worked fine back when I had all of my controls > in the same MainForm class. > Now I made my own UserControl which is added to my MainForm. > Like before, I need to know if the application window is focused, but this > time I have to do it from the UserControl rather than from the MainForm, > and I can't manage to do it. > > this.ActiveControl.Focused doesn't work, because this.ActiveControl is > null in the UserControl. > So I tried this.ParentForm.ActiveControl.Focused, which only works until I > focus another control in the UserControl, then it always returns false. (I > also tried (this.ParentForm as MainForm).ActiveControl.Focused, but no > difference) > > Any idea? > > Thanks! > > > Stifu wrote: >> >> Many thanks! :) >> >> >> Andreia Gaita wrote: >>> >>> On 2/8/09, Stifu <st...@free.fr> wrote: >>>> Long story short, I have the exact same problem as the one described >>>> here: >>>> http://bytes.com/groups/net-c/760728-application-focus >>>> I want to know if my application window is currently focused/active, >>>> but >>>> doing this.Focused doesn't return true if one the child controls of >>>> the >>>> application is focused. >>> >>> Off the top of my head, this.ActiveControl.Focused >>> >>> andreia gaita >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mono-winforms-list maillist - Mono-winforms-list@lists.ximian.com >>> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list >>> >>> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Find-out-if-the-application-window-is-focused-active-tp21897934p24132853.html Sent from the Mono - WinForms mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-winforms-list maillist - Mono-winforms-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list