Ok, perhaps it should be looked at from the opposite perspective. Instead of the main app (not JIT) trying to get focus back (after the apps launched via JIT steal the focus), how about the prgs and fxps launched from JIT look for the other app and shift focus to it if it is running?

Re: How to active other App. from VFP... Thread #896254 Message #896258


>Tracy,
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>It's a bit confusing so let me try again. I've been using a program for years called JIT.EXE. Its a scheduler program that loads as a service. It is very similar to the built in Windows Scheduler but I prefer some of its features over the Win XP Scheduler.
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>The single line in my previous post, how an application is launched using the program. I've been making reference to PRGS but I also have a few compiled Foxpro EXE's that I also launch via JIT. In each case, the PRGS or the EXE's launch as a "free-standing" application.
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>Most of the time, whenever any application launches it grabs focus as a normal course of action, i.e. Excel, Word, FoxPro, etc. Its just that I want these PRGS/VFP9 in sort of a "steath mode" without grabbing focus when they launch.
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>Robert
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>>No, I didn't get that. I use it for launching 3rd party apps in the >background from VFP9. I'm not sure I understand what you are doing. If you >have one vfp app running, and another vfp app that launches programs and >the 2nd vfp app that launches programs is stealing the focus from the 1st >vfp app, is that what you meant?
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>>Tracy