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VB Forum / COM / October 2007ActiveX EXE Foreground issue on Vista
I have an ActiveX EXE (written in VB6) that has worked fine on Windows 2000 and XP. When invoked, the calling application can call a method that has the ActiveX EXE display a dialog box. The problem is that on Vista, the dialog box ALWAYS appears behind the current running application, not in front of it. On all previous OS's the dialog box always appeared in the front. I so far have not found any easy way to bring the dialog to the front. It seems that because it is running in another process, that process isn't being given the focus, even though it was created by the process that currently has the focus. I really need to resolve this issue fast!!!! (and yes, I have tried calling BringWindowToTop, setForegroundWindow and other similar win api calls) I was able to get it to work by passing the window handle from the ActiveX EXE object back to the caller and have the caller call SetForegroundWindow. But to implement this would require rewriting all the applications that call this object and that is just not possible at this time!  SignatureScott McBurney Software Developer LexisNexis I should also mention, the dialog being show is a Modeless dialog, so it is not blocking the original calling process. SignatureScott McBurney Software Developer LexisNexis -- Scott McBurney Software Developer LexisNexis > I have an ActiveX EXE (written in VB6) that has worked fine on Windows 2000 > and XP. When invoked, the calling application can call a method that has the [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > But to implement this would require rewriting all the applications that call > this object and that is just not possible at this time! > I was able to get it to work by passing the window handle from the ActiveX > EXE object back to the caller and have the caller call SetForegroundWindow. > But to implement this would require rewriting all the applications that call > this object and that is just not possible at this time! So the goal is to just "fix" it in the axEXE? > I really need to resolve this issue fast!!!! (and yes, I have tried calling > BringWindowToTop, setForegroundWindow and other similar win api calls) Maybe try the technique here? http://vb.mvps.org/samples/ForceFore I'd be very interested to hear if that works. Signature.NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org "Karl E. Peterson" <karl@mvps.org>'s wild thoughts were released on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:05:33 -0700 bearing the following fruit: >> I was able to get it to work by passing the window handle from the ActiveX >> EXE object back to the caller and have the caller call SetForegroundWindow. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >I'd be very interested to hear if that works. Assuming it's the same ForceFore code I used then it does appear to work. At least it works on my PC and support calls reporting this problem have stopped ;-) -- Jan Hyde https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Jan.Hyde > "Karl E. Peterson" <karl@mvps.org>'s wild thoughts were > released on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:05:33 -0700 bearing the [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > appear to work. At least it works on my PC and support calls > reporting this problem have stopped ;-) Very cool. :-) Signature.NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org |
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