Sendmessage Help

Hi guys, here's my situation

I have an external app. In this app there's a parent window and a child window. Everytime i send a sendmessage to the parent window the child will show.

Now the problem is, the child windows will appear and the parent window will lost the focus. I don't want this to happen. It there a way to Sendmessage and the the child windows will appear not on the top. i don't want to deal with getforground windows and setfroground window.

Thanks for your reply.

Can you post the code you currently have?

Code:

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Dim parent as Long, child as Long
parent = FindWindow("My class",vbnullstring)
Sendmessage  parent,WM_COMMAND,2541,0 ' Show child and parent lost focus here

child = findwindow("#32770",vbnullstring)

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