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MSGSVG6 Message Boxes have keyboard focus but not visual
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23/03/2006 12:28:40
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Third party products
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 6 SP5
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01106952
Message ID:
01107045
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23
>Hi all
>
>I have been using Steven Black's MSGSVC 6.00 Public Domain utility pretty successfully in my CodeBook applications.
>
>One issue that regularly happens is, I have put a Yes / No kind of msgbox when a record is saved asking if the user wants to add another record. At times what happens is that the msgbox beep does happen but the msgbox is not seen over the data-entry form. When I press enter the msgbox comes on top and from there I can Y/N.
>
>Similarly I have a msgbox with an Ok button signalling then end of a long process. This msgbox does display and will also accept the keyboard Enter for okaying it, but the title bar of the msgbox has a deactivated, greyish look, clicking on which it will again have the activated look.
>
>Please advise on how to force the msgboxes to the front.

Did you try the old trick (Marcia's, AFAIR) to set its .alwaysontop on and then off in its .show method? It used to work.

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