In my application, I used

SetForegroundWindow hwnd

to bring the background window to front of desktop. It works fine in most of
the case. However, if the targeted background window is minimized, after
executing SetForegroundWindow hwnd to maximize this window, this window
cannot be minimized any longer(nothing happens when click the minimize
button on top-right corner of the window title bar)

I also tried this function:

ShowWindow hwnd, SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED

Same thing happens, can anyone give me some hint to make the minimize button
work again?



Thanks,



Kai

Kai,

Why do you not use just TopMost
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...pmosttopic.asp

I hope this helps,

Cor

"Cor Ligthert" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb:
> Why do you not use just TopMost

.... because it's something entirely different...

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]"

>> Why do you not use just TopMost
>
> ... because it's something entirely different...
>
I did not know that you was asking your question in this newsgroup with
another pseudo, however can you explain to me what is different?

Cor

Hi Cor,

Herfried may provide a better explanation, but AFAIK, TopMost establishes a
window in your app that will be always on top of the others, while
SetForegroundWindow is used to bring a normal window to the foreground, to
call the user's attention over it, if the OS allows it (because it can be
annoying, see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...oundwindow.asp)

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"Cor Ligthert" <(E-Mail Removed)> escribió en el mensaje
news:u$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]"
>
>>> Why do you not use just TopMost
>>
>> ... because it's something entirely different...
>>
> I did not know that you was asking your question in this newsgroup with
> another pseudo, however can you explain to me what is different?
>
> Cor
>

Carlos,

Thanks,

However, in my idea can I by directly after each other setting topmost to
true and false doing this process. I have the idea that everybody thinks
this is a designer option.

However, if I see this wrong, I gladly like to know what I miss.

Cor

Cor,

"Cor Ligthert" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb:
> However, in my idea can I by directly after each other setting topmost to
> true and false doing this process. I have the idea that everybody thinks
> this is a designer option.

It doesn't work as expected. The form keeps standing in the foreground even
if you reset 'TopMost' and clicking another window won't bring this window
to front.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" > "
>> However, in my idea can I by directly after each other setting topmost to
>> true and false doing this process. I have the idea that everybody thinks
>> this is a designer option.
>
> It doesn't work as expected. The form keeps standing in the foreground
> even if you reset 'TopMost' and clicking another window won't bring this
> window to front.
>
I tested this of course in advance before I wrote this with a timer.

:-)

Cor

"Cor Ligthert" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb:
>>> However, in my idea can I by directly after each other setting topmost
>>> to true and false doing this process. I have the idea that everybody
>>> thinks this is a designer option.
>>
>> It doesn't work as expected. The form keeps standing in the foreground
>> even if you reset 'TopMost' and clicking another window won't bring this
>> window to front.
>>
> I tested this of course in advance before I wrote this with a timer.

Well, I used a timer, but it still doesn't work as expected on my Windows XP
Professional SP2.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Herfried,

Show me the code maybe I do than understand what you mean?

Cor