Messagebox does not pop up on the foreground...

[Eddy Van Esch]

Hi all,
When the program that calls the following messagebox is minimized, the
messagebox does NOT come to the foreground

MSGBOX mess,%MB_SETFOREGROUND,"title"

When the program is not minimized, the messagebox DOES appear on the foreground.
I run it on Windows 2000...
Kind regards
Eddy


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[This message has been edited by Eddy Van Esch (edited September 18, 2001).]

[Peter Lameijn]

Cannot test it at the moment on w2k, but

MsgBox "Test", %MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Test"

should work always...


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[Lane Weast]

I have noticed that in Win2k it is possible for some programs
to create that behaviour in other apps. Specificly if WRQ's
reflecfions is running it tends to hogg the event focus
even though it can be minimized and other apps can be placed
in front of it. (Might have something to do with its ability
record macros with mouse movements.)
Also I have seen this happen when IE5 is running, where another
apps msgbox will appear to be created behind the current window.

Probably is related to javascipt watching for mouseovers.

In ether case when I have seen it there is usually an app
running that can hook mouse functions, except that
Archserve does this on a regular basis when the
change tape popup comes up and I know were not running flakey
apps on that server..


Lane

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[This message has been edited by Lane Weast (edited September 18, 2001).]

[Borje Hagsten]

Yes, %MB_SYSTEMMODAL should do it, but in case not, the MessageBox
API may be a better alternative, like:

  MessageBox hWnd, "test", " test", %MB_OK OR %MB_SYSTEMMODAL

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[Eddy Van Esch]

Indeed, %MB_SYSTEMMODAL does the job.
Silly of me to expect that %MB_SETFOREGROUND would actually do what its
name suggests...
BTW is there an API alternative for the PB/DLL INPUTBOX$()-function?
(like MessageBox is an alternative for MSGBOX...)
Thanks all!
Eddy


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[Peter P Stephensen]

Eddy,

Seach for inputbox in the code forum. It should give you
some alternatives.

Regards
Peter

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