>Hi Tracy.
>
>>Windows Event Binding Made Easy (Detecting application switch)
>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms947678.aspx
>
>Want to know something funny? I needed to do something similar to this a couple of days ago and was planning on doing some research to figure out how. Getting old, I guess.
>
>Doug

Same here :o) I have far too many examples now and so much code that I cannot even find anything I've done over the past 30 years in my own code :o)

It turns out I needed to do more than just force the lostfocus() on a control when the user switches to another app on the desktop. I also need to make a "kiosk app" more or less and Al pointed me in the right direction. I found these:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/winsdk/AntonioWinLock.aspx

And foxpro lock windows desktop: http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=492

If you work it out to suit your needs, please post a white paper for all the other "old folks" :o)

See: Message #1491513 and see thread #1482141