Is it possible to make a form deactivate itself without minimizing it?
I have written a small utility which copies selected files from CDs
(hundreds of them). I put a CD in the tray and click a button on the form to
tell it the next CD is ready for it to process. Each CD takes a few minutes
to copy, and the form has a textbox at which I glance to see the progress. I
have the form sending itself to the back, but it would be nice if it would
also relinquish focus to the previously active window.
..NET 1.1
Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
Form.ActiveForm .SendToBack()
Form.ActiveForm .Deactivate() ' no such method :-(
' process CD
Only a few hundred more CDs to do...
Andrew
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Andrew Morton schreef:
Is it possible to make a form deactivate itself without minimizing it?
I have written a small utility which copies selected files from CDs
(hundreds of them). I put a CD in the tray and click a button on the form to
tell it the next CD is ready for it to process. Each CD takes a few minutes
to copy, and the form has a textbox at which I glance to see the progress. I
have the form sending itself to the back, but it would be nice if it would
also relinquish focus to the previously active window.
.NET 1.1
Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
Form.ActiveForm .SendToBack()
Form.ActiveForm .Deactivate() ' no such method :-(
' process CD
Only a few hundred more CDs to do...
Andrew
form.enabled=fa lse
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Rinze van Huizen
C-Services Holland b.v
C-Services Holland b.v. wrote:
Andrew Morton schreef:
>Is it possible to make a form deactivate itself without minimizing
it? I have written a small utility which copies selected files from CDs
(hundreds of them). I put a CD in the tray and click a button on the
form to tell it the next CD is ready for it to process. Each CD
takes a few minutes to copy, and the form has a textbox at which I
glance to see the progress. I have the form sending itself to the
back, but it would be nice if it would also relinquish focus to the
previously active window. .NET 1.1
Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventAr gs) Handles Button1.Click
Form.ActiveForm .SendToBack()
Form.ActiveForm .Deactivate() ' no such method :-(
' process CD
Only a few hundred more CDs to do...
form.enabled=fa lse
No, that doesn't work, it just disables the form while leaving it as the
active window and the only way to close it then is through the Task Manager
:-(
Andrew
Andrew Morton schreef:
>form.enabled=f alse
No, that doesn't work, it just disables the form while leaving it as the
active window and the only way to close it then is through the Task Manager
:-(
Andrew
Well, how is the form displayed? If it's by using .showdialog(), then
what you want is not possible because that dialog is then modal.
--
Rinze van Huizen
C-Services Holland b.v
C-Services Holland b.v. wrote:
Andrew Morton schreef:
C-Services Holland b.v. wrote:
>>form.enabled= false
No, that doesn't work, it just disables the form while leaving it as
the active window and the only way to close it then is through the
Task Manager :-(
Well, how is the form displayed? If it's by using .showdialog(), then
what you want is not possible because that dialog is then modal.
It's a simple Windows application. I couldn't find anything in the Windows
API docs on the MSDN website - although that doesn't mean there isn't
anything. Maybe there's a more relevant newsgroup for me to ask in?
I've done a couple of screen-grabs of what to show what does and what I'd
like to happen: http://www.in-press.co.uk/windowsamp...dowsample.html (22KB)
There's only about 100 CDs left to do now, so there's no need for a solution
any more.
Andrew
Andrew Morton wrote:
It's a simple Windows application. I couldn't find anything in the
Windows API docs on the MSDN website - although that doesn't mean
there isn't anything.
For the benefit of anyone reading this in the future...
As I reach the end of the task, I found the GetWindow function in
user32.dll, with which I could have retrieved the window handle to the next
window in z-order (i.e. the previously activate one) so, with the handle, I
would have been able to activate that window.
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