How I can keep my form always top ?

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hello everyone again I'm so sorry I'm asked many questions in here I think next time admin will block me hhhh :'(

anyway my question this time how I can keep my form always on top but the problem is not how I can do it because I do it by Property ( TopMost = true ) .... the problem is how I can keep it always on top and not on top hhhh I don't know how I can explain what I need ( look at image to understand my question ) ... the form is on top but when I focus on any other TextBox outside my form I can write in it ... please anyone knows what property can do this ??

1 : image what I want

https://i.postimg.cc/rwMRgVH7/1-1.png[^]

2 : image my form

https://i.postimg.cc/Zn5DrzSN/1-2.png[^]

What I have tried:

I tried search in the web and found nothing because I don't know what event exactly I should search for it !!

Posted 21-Dec-20 1:44am

hamza mostakim

Updated 21-Dec-20 6:38am

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Richard MacCutchan 21-Dec-20 7:58am

"how I can keep it always on top and not on top"
Sorry, that does not make sense, and the images do not help to make it clearer.

hamza mostakim 21-Dec-20 8:04am

Thank you sir for paying attention many times ❤️
so what about I want when focus on TextBox outside my form I can write in it when click on button ?? what events can do this ??

Richard MacCutchan 21-Dec-20 8:13am

As soon as you click a button in your form the focus moves back to that form, so I don't think that would work. The only way for your application to write into another Window (e.g. TextBox) is to get a handle to that control. But I do not think you can do that just by clicking it.

hamza mostakim 21-Dec-20 8:37am

Yes this exactly what happened " As soon as you click a button in your form the focus moves back to that form " ... anyway Thank you very much for your information sir I will try search again :)

Richard MacCutchan 21-Dec-20 9:20am

In order to get the handle to the TextBox you are looking for, you need to use the EnumWindows function. But there is no easy way to identify which Window matches the handle.

hamza mostakim 24-Dec-20 6:13am

can you explain to me more this solution sir please ??

<< You need a Form that is not activated when a Mouse click is performed inside its client area (override CreateParams and set createParams.ExStyle |= (0x08000000 | 0x00000080);) and Controls on it that are not selectable with normal means (in the Constructor of a Custom Control, add this->SetStyle(System::Windows::Forms::ControlStyles::Selectable, false);). The Form cannot be shown from another Form. If it has to, you need to Task.Run() it and call ShowDialog(), to start the Message Loop). -- I assume C++ means C++/CLI here. >>

Richard MacCutchan 24-Dec-20 10:17am

Sorry, I do not understand what it means. And where did you get it from?

hamza mostakim 24-Dec-20 12:20pm

No problem sir and Thank so much for paying attention many times ❤️
I get it from here :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65425427/how-to-keep-a-form-always-on-top-without-stealing-focus-from-the-active-window/65439642#65439642

Richard MacCutchan 24-Dec-20 12:27pm

Then you should talk to the person who posted it.

hamza mostakim 24-Dec-20 12:46pm

Yes I did sir but I didn't understand nothing !! :'(
And I am ashamed to ask him a lot :'(

Richard MacCutchan 24-Dec-20 17:02pm

Sorry, but there is no point in asking here as we have no idea what that person's thoughts were. If someone offers you a solution then they are the ones that you need to have a conversation with.

hamza mostakim 25-Dec-20 3:38am

hhhh okay sir this is the first lesson I will learned in c++ I was think the programmers can understand each other =D

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Gerry Schmitz · Answer 1 · 2020-12-21T06:38:00

Solution 1

Making a Window "Always On Top"[^]

Posted 21-Dec-20 6:38am

Gerry Schmitz

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hamza mostakim 23-Dec-20 5:05am

can you help more please :

before run and build the ( demo project ) in the article a get this message :

https://i.postimg.cc/VsjqVBKh/1-1.png[^]

and after run and build it a get this error :

https://i.postimg.cc/26d12TCF/1-2.png[^]

do you know how I can fix it please ??

hamza mostakim 23-Dec-20 5:07am

ok ok sir thank you so much I think I found how I can fix it ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

hamza mostakim 23-Dec-20 7:53am

I fixed the error ... but I think this not what I want ??