ToolWindow Activate method differences

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Posted 8 years ago by Tom Johnson
Version: 16.1.0330
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I have two floating tool windows.   Let's call them A and B.   B is covering up A.   A wants to display a message in its control and bought to the user's attention.  If I call, Activate(false) on A, nothing really seems to happen.   If I just call Activate(), A is moved to the top and gets focus.   I would like to move A above B and keep focus on whatever control in the rest of the app had focus.   Any suggestions?

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Posted 8 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Tom,

I wonder if you could do ToolWindow.FindForm() to get the Form that is hosting the floating tool window.  You can't really call Activate() on that since I believe that will focus the Form's content too.  But you might be able to use the Windows API's SetWindowPos with SWP_NOACTIVATE as described in this thread:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156046/show-a-form-without-stealing-focus

That would likely let you bring the Form to the top without activating it.


Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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