I posted this a few weeks back but was not able to get a fix. I have form 1 that then runs form 2 from a command button. Form 2 is used to change settings on form 1. Form 1 is a modal formset with two forms. Form 2 is a modless top level form. When you click on any control on form 1 the form gets focus and form 2 loses focus. After that, the only way you can get form 2 to have focus is by clicking on the title bar.

Form 2 has a pointer to form 1 so that when the user changes a setting in form 2 the change is reflected in form 1. (form 1 code: do form2 with thisform. Thisform is then saved in a property of form 2 and it also sets a property in form 1 with its own Thisform.) Thus each form has a handle on the other. It must be that way so each form can change things in the other as needed.

In place of fixing the problem of not being able to set focus on form 2 by clicking it I thought about simply tracking the mouse pointer on the entire windows desktop and if the mouse is over form 2 then simply have some code set focus to it. I found code at new2news.com but what I found only tracks the mouse position and must be run repeatedly in a loop to get the position.

Does anyone know the windows API for mouse down anywhere on the windows desktop? I can get the position, I just need the mousedown event to fire off my code.