Hi Sergey,

I tried that too after I posted. It still didn't work. In the meantime I created a simple modal form to mimic the message box, and I execute that instead of the messagebox. This solves the problem.

I don't really understand why. I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that messagebox() is a windows system window, not native vfp? But I'm not too familiar with those types of things.

Robert,

I'll try the oword.application.activate as well to see if it makes a difference.

Thanks as always for your input.


>David,
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>Just a guess, try to show messagebox before you instantiate word object

Messagebox( ...
>oad= Thisform.oword.documents.Open(lcNewfileName)
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>>I have am calling word automation from vfp 7. It's a simple application. The user highlights a document name in a grid. The application then opens the word file for editing. I want the word application to be on top of the vfp application.
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>>I've seen posts on here (somewhere from Cetin - I think) indicating that issuing the activate is 'usually sufficient' to bring word on top.
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>>The following code brings the word window to the top:
>>oad= Thisform.oword.documents.Open(lcNewfileName)
>>WAIT clear
>>thisform.oword.visible=.t.
>>Thisform.oword.Activate()
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>>But the problem is that I want to display a message to the user before I bring word to the top. For some reason, if I insert a messagebox() before calling the activate code, it doesn't bring it to the top????
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>>The following code DOES NOT work:
>>oad= Thisform.oword.documents.Open(lcNewfileName)
>>WAIT clear
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>>Messagebox('The file ' + lcNewfileName + 'is now available in Microsoft Word for editing' + Chr(13)+Chr(10) + ;
>> 'Click OK to begin editing the file',0+64,'Document Management System')
>>thisform.oword.visible=.t.
>>Thisform.oword.Activate()
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>>Why does the messagebox() have an effect on this. I am stumped. There were some other posts about using the findwindow API. Will I need to resort to using that?
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