Bring window to front..

[tim_l_012]

How do I bring the window to the front of all others??

I dont want to use always on top api, just bring it forward, and allow it to losefocus again..

know what i mean?

Thanks.

[BigAJ]

Use the ZOrder method,

text1.ZOrder 0

will bring the text1 text box to the front of everything else.

[TomGibbons]

Declarations:

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 = 2 
Private Const SWP_NOSIZE = 1 
Private Const FLAGS = SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE 
Private Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1
Private Const HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2
 
Private Function SetTopMostWindow(hwnd As Long, Topmost As Boolean) As Long 
 
On Error Goto ErrRtn 
 
If (Topmost) Then
     SetTopMostWindow = SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS) 
Else
     SetTopMostWindow = SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_NOTOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS) 
     SetTopMostWindow = False
End If 
 
Exit Function
ErrRtn:
MsgBox "Error in SetTopMostWindow " & Err & " " & Error, vbExclamation + vbOKCancel 
End Function

To make it ontop:

Private Sub Form_Load()
SetTopMostWindow Me.hwnd, True
End Sub

To disable, just run:

SetTopMostWindow Me.hwnd, False

[tim_l_012]

yeah, im using that at the moment.. the problem is that I dont want it to be over the windows taskbar...

also, your code says:

SetTopMostWindow Me.hwnd, True

and you've written the same thing for disabling it!!

anyway, how do I bring it forward, without it appearing over the taskbar??

Thanks,

[moinkhan]

I am wondering why somebody not use the following code to accomplish what you are saying....

'''''''
Private Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long


Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
SetForegroundWindow Me.hwnd

End Sub

[moinkhan]

Don't get confused by Timer control!! I just put it to check the code... just call the setForegroundwindow whenever you want to make the window in Focus...

[tim_l_012]

more info??

also, would it be good to use API to make:

1) my app on top
2) taskbar on top

??

Thanks,

[moinkhan]

1)
My code will make your application on top


2)
to make task bar on top just get its handler through FindWindow API and then pass it in place of me.hwnd

Any more details... ?

[tim_l_012]

I hope it works

will my idea work?

Thanks for all of your help,