Overriding background form activation behavior...

[Logan1337]

Hi. I'm trying to use a global hotkey via keyboard hooks and a nifty class George Mamladze http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/globalhook.asp (why by the way works and isn't the cause of my problem), but when I try to activate my form from the background, I get mixed behavior of sometimes working as it should, and sometimes resulting in just the taskbar button flashing as apps that require attention do.

As this is a user-initiated action, it does little good to tell them that the application needs attention when they press the hotkey!

Is there a way I can override this "feature" and bring my form to the front 100% of the time?

[Logan1337]

Found the answer myself!

Seems the trick is to Hide() the form before calling SetForegroundWindow() (User32.dll) and/or Show()/Select() (I'm not sure which are necessarily required as I do all three and it works).

Anyhow this way there is no window to flash in the task bar, so Windows has no choice but to bring up the form when it is Show()n, hee hee.

[kenobewan]

Well done! Thanks for sharing the solution :).