Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] BringWindowToTop ... gah...

[Robert May <rmay@po...>]

Steve Loughran wrote:
> OK, this is driving me mad on and off for a few days (I keep coming back 
> to it)...
> 
> #========
> 
> my $window = Win32::GuiTest::FindWindowLike(undef, "fubar");
> 
> Win32::GUI::BringWindowToTop($window);
> 
> #========
> 
> This doesn't affect the window Z order at all, and yet if I click on the 
> window with the mouse, it raises to the top. Any ideas?

I don't know for sure, but it's very likely that you can't call 
BringWindowToTop() on a window of another thread/process - in much the 
same way that it is documented that you can't call SetActiveWindow 
cross-thread/process.

If this is the case and you really need to do it, then there are some 
tricks using AttachThreadInput() - but I've never tried, only ready 
about them.

Regards,
Rob.

[perl-win32-gui-users] BringWindowToTop ... gah...

[Steve Loughran <stevelml1@sc...>]

Hi all

OK, this is driving me mad on and off for a few days (I keep coming back 
to it)...

#========

my $window = Win32::GuiTest::FindWindowLike(undef, "fubar");

Win32::GUI::BringWindowToTop($window);

#========

This doesn't affect the window Z order at all, and yet if I click on the 
window with the mouse, it raises to the top. Any ideas?


Steve

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] BringWindowToTop ... gah...

[Robert May <rmay@po...>]

Steve Loughran wrote:
> OK, this is driving me mad on and off for a few days (I keep coming back 
> to it)...
> 
> #========
> 
> my $window = Win32::GuiTest::FindWindowLike(undef, "fubar");
> 
> Win32::GUI::BringWindowToTop($window);
> 
> #========
> 
> This doesn't affect the window Z order at all, and yet if I click on the 
> window with the mouse, it raises to the top. Any ideas?

I don't know for sure, but it's very likely that you can't call 
BringWindowToTop() on a window of another thread/process - in much the 
same way that it is documented that you can't call SetActiveWindow 
cross-thread/process.

If this is the case and you really need to do it, then there are some 
tricks using AttachThreadInput() - but I've never tried, only ready 
about them.

Regards,
Rob.