Classic VB: Description: ForceFore
Description
Short story: Force another window to the foreground, when SetForegroundWindow doesn't work, by attaching to its thread.
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Published
This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least
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APIs Usage
This sample uses the following API calls:
| Module |
Library |
Function |
| ForceFore.bas |
user32
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AttachThreadInput
GetForegroundWindow
GetParent
GetWindowThreadProcessId
IsIconic
IsWindowVisible
SetForegroundWindow
ShowWindow |
| ForceFore.frm |
user32
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GetCursorPos
ReleaseCapture
SetCapture
SetForegroundWindow
WindowFromPoint |
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Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution.
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Tuesday, 27 October 1998
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