Re: ForegroundLockTimeout not consistent

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From: Heinz Biermann (hbierman_at_gistech.com)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 08:00:17 -0700

Dave Patrick wrote:
> Logon for what?
>
It's a logon for a document management system. My program references
some third-party dlls, and first thing you have to do is log on. One of
the logon options is to bring up a dialog box for the user to
interactively fill in the info.

On some machines, this box pops up in front, on some it stays hidden
behind other open windows. To test this, I started my program from a
shortcut, then quickly gave focus to another open window (Windows
Explorer, in this case) that covered a large part of the screen. With
the default setting of 200000 for ForegroundLockTimeout, the logon
always stays behind the focus window. I was able to consistently bring
the window to the front by setting ForegroundLockTimeout to zero. So far
it behaves like advertised.

But things get weird when I hit a breakpoint during debugging in VS.NET.
As I said earlier, afterwards the window stays hidden behind other
windows even though ForegroundLockTimeout is still zero.

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