Application to run in small window above task bar

[Ben]

Hi

We have an application that is to run whenever a user is logged in, it
checks a View on a database and when there are records returned by the view
it alerts the user.

We want an application that we have written to sit on top of all windows
just above the clock on the taskbar at all times. We do not want it to
steal focus from any applications when it checks the database.

How can we achieve this.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards
B

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

I would suggest that the correct model would be to have the app sitting in
the system tray and then notify the user with some sort of a popup
notification window such as that used by Yahoo messenger, Norton Antivirus,
ZoneAlarm et-al.

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Hi

We have an application that is to run whenever a user is logged in, it
checks a View on a database and when there are records returned by the
view
it alerts the user.

We want an application that we have written to sit on top of all windows
just above the clock on the taskbar at all times. We do not want it to
steal focus from any applications when it checks the database.

How can we achieve this.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards
B