Topmost window

[marnitzg]

Ok. When my prog is minimized it sits in the taktray. When a user clicks the icon it restores to vbnormal. Now, I need this window to be seen (As in on top). My problem is, for some reason the forcewindowontop function isn't working?

Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long

Why?

[Aaron Young]

To make your Form TopMost use the SetWindowPos API with the HWND_TOPMOST constant, i.e.

Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long
Private Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2
Private Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1
Private Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1

Private Sub Form_Activate()
    Call SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE)
End Sub

[marnitzg]

Tried that one already, also didn't work

[Aaron Young]

It does work, but won't appear to work when run from within the VB IDE environment, compile the EXE and it's fine.

[marnitzg]

I know, and have compiled. Still didn't work. Maybe I should say that I am running Win 2000 Server. It worked fine before on 98 and NT!

[marnitzg]

Ok now this is weird. If I call both api functions the window comes to the top (even in the IDE) but not if I only call one.

Can anyone explain or should I just blame this on Microsoft?