Creating a window that shows up over the parent window

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Hi,

Let me explain you the scenario. There is a win32 dll that is being called by Java Applet. Win32 dll has the code to create a window and show the window. Everything works fine but the problem is, this window is hidden under the browser (Internet explorer) and the user has to Alt+Tab to see the window.

Can someone suggest what can be done to directly show the window over browser? Its a kind file->open on Internet explorer.

Thanks in Advance,
Hari

Posted 8-Feb-11 9:11am

Hari-Adarapu

Updated 8-Feb-11 9:13am

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-02-08T09:14:00

Solution 1

In your DLL, call SetForegroundWindow on the window handle.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633539(v=vs.85).aspx[^]

Posted 8-Feb-11 9:14am

Nish Nishant

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programmer095 8-Feb-11 15:34pm

A 5. Enough for practically all purposes.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Feb-11 15:36pm

I have to agree - my 5.
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Yusuf · Answer 2 · 2011-02-08T09:16:00

Solution 2

Do you have an access to the win32 dll code? If so, call ::SetWindowPos to set it at the top of the Z-order. See MSDN docs[^]

Posted 8-Feb-11 9:16am

Yusuf

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Feb-11 15:36pm

I think this is another valid variant - my 5.
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 3 · 2011-02-08T09:21:00

Solution 3

In most general case, you need two Windows API calls: SetForegroundWindow and SetActiveWindow.

—SA

Posted 8-Feb-11 9:21am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Nish Nishant 8-Feb-11 15:28pm

SetActiveWindow is a good point, voted 5.