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How to open a form in background?
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26/01/2005 13:53:51
 
 
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26/01/2005 13:21:28
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
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Thread ID:
00980612
Message ID:
00980881
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>>>My exe is running a top level form in the backgound on my screen. It launches another top level form and both forms come to the foreground on my screen. I'd like them to stay in the backgound until I click on the form's button on my taskbar.
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>>Could you keep the form invisible until you want it?
>
>Hi Nancy,
>I'm going to play with that idea, but do you have an idea on how I would then make it visible when the user clicked on the taskbar button for the form?

Hm. Forget what I said about setting visible false. Instead, set WindowState to Minimized for the second form. It'll come to the foreground when you click it in the taskbar.

I didn't consider the taskbar part of your question. Sorry about that.
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