ForceFore

Description

Short story: Force another window to the foreground, when SetForegroundWindow doesn't work, by attaching to its thread.

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Published

This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):

Force Your Way to the Foreground, Ask the VB Pro, VBPJ, February 1999

APIs Usage

This sample uses the following API calls:

Module Library Function

ForceFore.bas user32

AttachThreadInput
GetForegroundWindow
GetParent
GetWindowThreadProcessId
IsIconic
IsWindowVisible
SetForegroundWindow
ShowWindow

ForceFore.frm user32

GetCursorPos
ReleaseCapture
SetCapture
SetForegroundWindow
WindowFromPoint

Don't see what you're looking for? Here's a complete API cross-reference.

Module	Library	Function
ForceFore.bas	user32	AttachThreadInput GetForegroundWindow GetParent GetWindowThreadProcessId IsIconic IsWindowVisible SetForegroundWindow ShowWindow
ForceFore.frm	user32	GetCursorPos ReleaseCapture SetCapture SetForegroundWindow WindowFromPoint

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Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution.
Download ForceFore.zip, 7Kb, Last Updated: Tuesday, October 27, 1998