>>In the past, when I opened Excel through Automation (from Visual FoxPro), it came to the front automatically.
>>I believe that was with an older version of the operating system. Now it doesn't. I suspect this has to do with
>>some security system implemented by newer versions of the operating system itself, in which case not
>>much can be done... but I wanted to check whether this is really the case.
>>TIA,
>>Hilmar.
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>In order to bring some windows to the front, the process must temporarily attach itself to that process, perform the "bring to front" operation, and then detach. I have some code if you need it. I'll have to dig it up. Here's a Stack Overflow article outlining the procedure:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3772233/win32-setforegroundwindow-unreliableThanks to all for your suggestions; for now, I successfully implemented the solution which Naomi pointed out.
Hilmar.
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