Thread: window focus

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    window focus

    how do i bring a certain window to the front? example: i have the game Solitaire running, Internet Explorer, and my program open. IE is infront. i want my program to be able to bring the Solitaire window to the front by itself.

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    To bring a window to the foreground, use SetForegroundWindow:
    Code:
    HWND solitaire = FindWindow(NULL,"Solitaire");
    BOOL ret = SetForegroundWindow(solitaire);

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