C#, Tool Windows and focus issues

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Hello,

I am writing a special version of a paint program using c# and the .Net Framework 2.0.
So I have multiple Windows with the FormBorderStyle FixedToolWindow, one windows as a main editor window with the default border style and now i want them to look like they had all the focus at the same time, the way programs like Paint.Net do behave.

The reason for that is that it irritates me when I see the editor window loose focus. This happen of cause when I click on some buttons in one of the tool windows.

I guess it could be achieved by telling the windows, they should not apply the "unfocused" look and just keep the focus look when lossing focus with some mystik send window message or stuff like that. ;-)

I was talking to other programmers and they had ideas like changing the colors so that a non-focussed windows look like a focussed window or that the toolbox windows would not have any title at all and that i use a picturebox to paint my own title but all these ideas look like workarounds to me with some drawbacks i would not like to take.

I tried to google an answer but i did not find any. Sure there will be one, I guess i just do not find the right words for the search :(.

Any help is appreciated

Markus Bauer

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