Re: Windows 7 want new window to receive focus

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

That may be so and it may well be the application, but based on my
experience with an old VB6 application I wrote I beleive that Windows
7 (and Vista) do not necessarily handle opening Windows correctly.

Specifically:
- Issuing a msgbox statement in the application could open the msgbox
dialog bx in the background.
- Opening up a new Window in modal format can result in it being
opened in the background
- Running the ShowOpen method on a common dialog control can result in
it being opened in the background

Modifying the desktops graphics settings seems to help. Simply hitting
the Alt key usually brings the errant window to the foreground. It
seems to me that the display management is at fault.

I'd happily accept that there might be an error with a form I'd
designed but when the Common Dialog control and even more alarmingly
the MsgBox command doesn't work as expected then there is something
fundamentally wrong with the support supposedly backed into Windows.

regards
Evan Harris

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Lukas Beeler
<lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 17:01, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In Windows 7, this comm window stays in the background, so the salespeople
> > are getting confused as to whether anything is happening.  I have searched
> > online and cannot find a way to have a new window show ("receive focus",
> > "active window", or whatever it's called.)
>
> That's a bug in the application. Open a case with the manufacturer of
> said application.
>
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