>Hello all
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>Does anyone have a way to create a VFP form that does not activate; more specifically does not take focus away from the currently active form. The VFP toolbar behaves in this way but it is simply not flexible enough for my needs (eg, a toolbar cannot be placed outside the VFP screen or a top level form).
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>Alternatively has anyone managed to create a form using CreateWindowEx() to achieve this as there is an extended style defined by WS_EX_NOACTIVATE that is supposed to make this happen but from my simple tests this still seems to remove focus from other VFP forms.
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>Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.
I can create a Window using CreateWindowEx() that doesn't take focus away from a VFP form but I don't know what use that is to you. You don't want to be building a window by hand with api do you?
Cheers,
Jamie