Me.Focus()

[Matthew]

I have a taskbar icon in my application. When the user double-clicks it I
would like it to give focus to a form that is already open, but is behind
other windows unrelated to my program.

Is this possible?

I tried Me.Focus() but that didn't seem to do anything.

Matthew

[CHRISM]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:12:28 -0500, "Matthew"
<tu*************@alltel.net> wrote:

I have a taskbar icon in my application. When the user double-clicks it I
would like it to give focus to a form that is already open, but is behind
other windows unrelated to my program.

Is this possible?

I tried Me.Focus() but that didn't seem to do anything.

Matthew

Try Me.BringToFront() : Me.Focus()

// CHRIS

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Matthew" <tu*************@alltel.net> schrieb:

I have a taskbar icon in my application. When the user
double-clicks it I would like it to give focus to a form
that is already open, but is behind other windows unrelated
to my program.

Is this possible?

AFAIK, you will need p/invoke on 'AttachThreadInput' + 'SetForegroundWindow'
to archieve what you want.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Matthew]

Thanks for the response.

Try Me.BringToFront() : Me.Focus()

I gave it a shot, and it didn't work in my application. Just for fun, I
created a new Solution, added a new NotifyIcon, and added this code to the
form:

Private Sub NotifyIcon1_DoubleClick(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.DoubleClick
Me.BringToFront() : Me.Focus()
End Sub

That didn't work either.

Matthew

[Matthew]

> AFAIK, you will need p/invoke on 'AttachThreadInput' +

'SetForegroundWindow' to archieve what you want.

Bingo!
My final code:

Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
'Windows Form Designer generated code
<DllImport("user32.dll")> _
Public Function SetForegroundWindow(ByVal hwnd As IntPtr) As Boolean
End Function
Private Sub NotifyIcon1_DoubleClick(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.DoubleClick
SetForegroundWindow(Me.Handle)
End Sub

Matthew

[Rulin Hong]

Use Form.Activate Method

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Me.Activate()

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I have a taskbar icon in my application. When the user double-clicks it I
would like it to give focus to a form that is already open, but is behind
other windows unrelated to my program.

Is this possible?

I tried Me.Focus() but that didn't seem to do anything.

Matthew

[Matthew]

> Me.Activate()

Good greif! That's to simple!

Thank you.

Matthew