Back again, and the night will be darker as I expected ...

We setup a small program that uses GetWindow, GetDesktopWindow, GetWindowText, IsIconic, SetForegroundWindow, ShowWindow. To get the idea.
The ShowWindow (IF IsIcon()) was performed with SW_SHOW and SW_RESTORE;
All is running fine in W95 (I expect - and the rest), but won't work in W2K;
The Iconized task remains like that, though it flikkers a 5 times dark-blue ("want to tell you something ...") and remains dark-blue after that.
So I guess there is a real problem here.

BUT :

By now I can narrow down the problem to VFP-W2K only, I mean, not being dependent on our app :

Our testprogram runs standalone, and can be performed on the VFP-DE-desktop;
After the program is started, it waits for a few secs, and allows you to minimize VFP or make another task active (alt-tab etc.). Once the timer elapses, it makes VFP the active task again. Well, it does on W95, but doesn't on W2K. So ???

So everyone should be dealing with this.

Now note that if I start VFP-DE without app, nothing is the matter, and the problem WILL originate from starting other tasks like our app does. This of course to be prooven bij the test-program, which just should work but doesn't (and does on W95 !).

Now coincidentally I saw PC-Anywhere behave the same (doesn't come forward after startup, but form is there at wrong ZOrder). Thus, a W2K problem I guess.

Is anyone experienced on this anoying thing ?

We can survive with it, but it bothers me.
Please don't bother writing this test-program, because I can put it here easily.


>Hi!
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>If DECLARE DLL exists, that you will be able to use these API functions. It seems you just misunderstood what is API function here - it is not the FoxAPI function. It is Windows API function from Windows kernels and DLLs. Both ShowWindow, FindWindow and SetForegroundWindow are Windows API functions. There is a section here at UT for API functions where you can find a lot of samples. Take a look also to the Anatoliy Mogylevets site http://www.news2news.com/vfp/index.php that is also for using Windows API functions in VFP. With these functions you can do a lot more things...
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>HTH.