ToolWindow opens in background

Hi Gian,

Do you open it via ToolWindow.Activate(true)?

I am doing the following

private ToolWindow AddFloating(string inCaption, UserControl inUIControl)
{
  ToolWindow tw = new ToolWindow(content.DockSite)
  {
    Content = inUIControl,
    Title = inCaption,
    Focusable = true
  };

  DockSite.SetControlSizeForState(tw, inUIControl.RenderSize, DockingWindowState.Docked);
  tw.Float(WPFUtilities.Utilities.GetScreenMousePosition(), new Size(420, 400));
  tw.Activate(true);

  return tw;
}

I added tw.Activate(true) after your suggestion but it didn't change the behavior

Hi Gian,

I did a quick test here with creating a new tool window effectively with the same code you have in response to a button click on another floating tool window.  When I tested it the new one was on top like you wanted.  So perhaps whatever control you are clicking in your app to create the new tool window is retaining the focus somehow?  Try executing that code from a regular Button and see if it still happens.

Thanks for the help, but still it opens in the background.. I am starting to think that it is a side effect of the way I send events around my application. Maybe it would be easier to get a reference to the floating window's outermost container (I think it's a Window or Form or similar?) and call something like a BringToFront?

Hi Gian,

I was going to say perhaps it's something in your app that is causing it.  You can probably get the Window via Window.GetWindow(tw).  And then call the Activate() method on it to bring it to the front.