Thread: Bringing an Application to the Front in XP

Hi there,

How do I code to bring an application to front of all other applications and give it focus? Sounds simple, but here's the problem:

What is happening is that the app is not being brought to the front, but its toolbar flashes to indicate to the user that it 'wants' to come to the front. Many standard applications seem to behave this way. I don't recall this being an issue in older versions of windows.

Anyone know how can override this to force the app to the front?

Found this, if anyone's interested.

http://www.elists.org/pipermail/delp...ne/020556.html

Basically it explains why the beviour has changed. Therefore, I've decided I don't need to know how to 'force' a window to the front anymore.

Just use mouse_eventf(). That's how I do it.

what about:

BringWindowToTop(HWND hMyWindow);

No, that still doesn't work adequately, in Windows XP at least. Remember that XP prevents this happening. Currently, my solution is the only one I know of to make a window the active one. It actually simulates the mouse click at the driver level, so is basically the same as clicking on the window.

I see, interesting. I might do some experiments on this.