Show form without obtaining focus

14 Dec 2006 4:39 PM

Mike Kansky

I have an Outlook alerts type application.
When an alert is displayed (it is a form that is showed above system tray)
it gets the focus and if the user was in a middle of something, i.e. writing
word document, it will take the focus and will interrupt whatever the user
was doing.

Is there any way to display the form without stealing focus, but still show
it on top of other application currently running on the user's computer?

2 Jan 2007 5:32 PM

sstory

two ideas:

1.)
Set the form to "Always on Top"
Google with that phrase and you will find out how. If this is .NET I think
forms have a setting for this to avoid needing a DECLARE statement or
equivalent.

2.) You could always use the Systry popup balloon messages in XP. They
don't steal the focus. WARNING: They can get irratating to users.

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"Mike Kansky" <MikeKan***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have an Outlook alerts type application.
> When an alert is displayed (it is a form that is showed above system tray)
> it gets the focus and if the user was in a middle of something, i.e.
> writing
> word document, it will take the focus and will interrupt whatever the user
> was doing.
>
> Is there any way to display the form without stealing focus, but still
> show
> it on top of other application currently running on the user's computer?
>