Re: Make Form stay on top until application is deactivated

From: Randy Birch (rgb_removethis_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:15:43 -0500

That sounds no different that specifying the Owner parameter in VB's Show
statement ...

form2.show vbmodeless, form1

This will make it topmost to the app - albeit not modal - and allow other
apps to appear over it. 

-- 
Randy Birch
MS MVP Visual Basic
http://vbnet.mvps.org/
"Ken Wickes [MSFT]" <kenwic@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:eIufYKO$EHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
: CreateWindow hwndParent arg will set the owner for a top-level window. 
See
: this from MSDN
:
: "Handle to the parent or owner window of the window being created. To 
create
: a child window or an owned window, supply a valid window handle. This
: parameter is optional for pop-up windows. "
:
: I agree it is confusing but the param and the GetWindowLong field are
: overloaded.  They do mean parent for child windows and owner for top-level
: windows.
:
:
: -- 
:
: Ken Wickes [MSFT]
: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no 
rights.
:
:
: "Tom Esh" <tjeshGibberish@suscom.net> wrote in message
: news:g2nlu01oko3sm9k00hjdaih8cr95ieqfrl@4ax.com...
: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:43:36 -0800, "Ken Wickes [MSFT]"
: > <kenwic@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
: >
: >>Setting the owner of an existing window sounds a little dangerous to me.
: >
: > Hi Ken,
: >
: > Never had a problem with it. AFIK the owner / owned relationship (not
: > to be confused with parent / child BTW) effects only the zorder and
: > visibility behavior. I've found the SDK docs to be sometimes confusing
: > with regard to owner/owned vs parent/child relationships since they
: > often use the terms interchangably (and incorrectly). For example the
: > the defined name of the GWL_HWNDPARENT constant used with
: > Get/SetWindowlong would imply that it relates to parent/child, when in
: > fact it does not. (A more appropriate name choice would have been
: > GWL_HWNDOWNER.) Using SetParent OTOH is a different story and caution
: > would definitely be advisable :-)
: >
: >>Can't you just set the parent/owner param of CreateWindow or whatever 
the
: >>VB
: >>equivalent is?
: > CreateWindow's hwndParent arg is entirely different as it set's the
: > parent (not the owner). If you're referring to the Ownerform argument
: > to VB's show statement, I can't see how it's useful in this case
: > because it only accepts a Form object. My guess is behind the scenes
: > it's calling SetWindowLong with GWL_HWNDPARENT anyway, which AFIK is
: > the only way the API provides to set the owner.
: >
: >
: > -Tom
: > MVP - Visual Basic
: > (please post replies to the newsgroup)
:
:

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