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"Jonathan Benedicto" <incorrect@no.server> wrote:
>"Roland" <neubert_nospam_@wst-gmbh.de> wrote in message 
>news:42f1bb81$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> I try to find a way to make sure that my main app never lost the focus,
>> because it is driven by a wheel only which only generates KeyUp and down
>> messages and The Enter msg.Sometimes it may happen that a background
>> app like pcAnywhere grabs the focus and the main app is then not longer
>> accessible.
>>
>> At the moment the main app is started and controlled by a second
>> app,so I can control some start conditions and I can watch the main app 
>> if it is
>> alive.
>>
>> My suggestion is to use this second app to send some 'vitual mouse clicks�
>> to the main app when some other app has stolen the focus. I already 
>> obtained
>> the processID of the main app and create the handle using OpenProcess to 
>> use
>> the handle in SendMessage. But my main app does not receive these 
>> messages.
>>
>> Does anybody know the right way to send some WM_ messages to another app
>> or does someone have another better idea to prevent my app from losing
>> the focus. (The settings of TwaekUIXP do not solve the problem.)
>
>
>// In the form's constructor.
>Application->OnDeactivate = HandleDeactivate;
>
>void __fastcall TForm1::HandleDeactivate( TObject *Sender )
>{
>    PostMessage( Handle, WM_APP + 1001, 0, 0 );
>}
>
>void __fastcall TForm1::WndProc( TMessage &Message )
>{
>    if( Message.Msg == WM_APP + 1001 )
>    {
>        Application->BringToFront();
>    }
>}
>
>HTH
>
>Jonathan 
>
>
Hello Jonathan,

I've done it in principe in this way. Before I tell my second app that the main app has lost the focus I transmitt the name of the last topmost window of the main app and the the 'Lost focus' message ... it runs.