Program dominates screen, wants to always be "on top"

[jbclem]

I have a stock market real time program that is very annoying in the way
that it wants to be always "on top". While I can understand needing some
priority when live real time data is coming in (during market hours), other
similar programs don't have this problem. What I am talking about it that
if I am in another program, the click on the desktop icon...this program
will pop up on top. Same when I'm switching from one program to another one
(which this real time program is running). Most obnoxiously, when I'm
closing down this program (it takes 1-2 minutes), I can't do anything else
because everytime I switch to another program this one will pop up "on top".

The reason for all this description is that I'd like to know if there is a
way to change the priority of this program (at least after market hours) so
if nothing else when I close it down at 11pm, I can read my email while it's
closing down. Could someone enlighten me about this matter and tell me if I
can get the program to run a little more in the background. BTW, the
programmer of this program is not interested in making this kind of change
so it's up to me, if it's possible.

Thanks in advance,

jc

 

[Newbie Coder]

JbClem,

Unless the application itself comes with an always on top (TopMost) option then
I think you are stuck with it.

There are applications that hook applications which will allow you to remove
this feature but hooking can sometimes make the machine unstable depending on
the coder's capabilities

There is an application called Tray It
(http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm), whuch you can minimise the ticker
program to the system tray