Re: SetForegroundWindow and modal dialogs

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From: Evariste HORNECKER
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 12:30

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I use the BringWindowToTop function which work only on popup windows.
In your case, each popup window must have a parent window (the main window 
of the application)

Hope it helps

"nicolasr" <nicolasrNOSPAMATSIGNgmx.net> a �crit dans le message de news: 
4283df81@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a global hook DLL installed that on certain events
> should set my application to the front. This works well when
> my application does not currently show a modal dialog
> or message box. When my application shows a modal
> dialog the application is brought to the top of the z-order
> but the dialog is behind it. Since the dialog is modal the
> user can't work with my app anymore and worse he
> doesn't know why because he does not know there's a
> modal dialog hidden.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this? My hook DLL uses
> SetForegroundWindow to bring my app to the top.
>
> (my app is VCL based)
>
> thanks,
> Nick
>

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