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[GD-Windows] SetForegroundWindow failing?

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

My calls to SetForegroundWindow() are mysteriously failing.  On Win2K
I'm getting GetLastError() of 0; on Win98, I get error 87
(E_INVALIDPARMS).  The hWnd is valid.

Any ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,

Brian

Re: [GD-Windows] SetForegroundWindow failing?

[Andrew G. <an...@ra...>]

Only a foreground process can call SFW, this was introduced by MS in Win98
and later to stop applications stealing the focus. There are other criteria
for SFW but this is probably the one that's tripping you up.

try:

ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_RESTORE);
SetForegroundWindow(hWnd);

// andrew




----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hook" <bri...@py...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 2:12 AM
Subject: [GD-Windows] SetForegroundWindow failing?


> My calls to SetForegroundWindow() are mysteriously failing.  On Win2K
> I'm getting GetLastError() of 0; on Win98, I get error 87
> (E_INVALIDPARMS).  The hWnd is valid.
>
> Any ideas what might cause this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
>
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