How To Make Window/form Become Active Foreground
Apr 21, 2010
I'm using Visual Basic 2010 Express.I have a form that can be minimized.There's also a tray icon.I've coded it so that if you double-click on the tray icon, the form's FormWindowState becomes set to Normal; this restores the form to where was before it became minimized, but the form does not become the active window on my desktop.
How can I make the form become the active most foreground window? I've tried various functions that I can think of but no luck yet. Tried searching with various queries to try and find the right wording but no luck.I'm new to Visual Basic - only started a couple hours ago.Probably something simple but I can't seem to find the correct function or anything.I have the form/window open, and then I overlap said form with a window of another application. When I double-click my app's tray icon, I want my window to become the active window, bringing it to the front, but can't figure out how
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Jan 6, 2010
The user32.dll provides functions to get the process id from a process executable name, and I can also obtain the active or foreground window that the user is working.Can I determine what windows the targeted process has opened? Otherwise, can I find out what details about the process that opened the foreground/active window?
My code needs to run only when another specific process is running and the user is actively using that window, while that window is the top-most window on the desktop.
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Oct 3, 2011
Ok so i have this function at beginning:
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Aug 14, 2009
I want to take a snapshot of the foreground window without using print screen key. So far the only think i can do with the foreground window is get its title but If i can get the size and location then I can get cordinates on where to set capture with graphics.copyfromscreen.
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Aug 21, 2010
How can I get the handle of the window that is below (or behind, whatever you call it) the foreground window?
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Aug 29, 2010
What is command to make window active? I want one of my windows to be on top of all other windows that I have opened so I can work with it
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May 30, 2010
I need to make a program for school that closes the active window. My application does now SendKeys.Send("%{F4}"). It works but, it also does it when there are no active windows. I want it to close only the active windows.
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Oct 15, 2009
I am trying to use appactivate to bring a window to the foreground however this is not working. When the program is already open on the desktop and there are other windows on top of it and I use AppActivate then it brings that window into the foreground. However if that window is minimized to the windows bar below, then the only thing appactivate does is have that program selected but it does not bring it into the foreground. I need to have any window forced to the foreground while retaining its original size.
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Nov 26, 2011
I want to be able to make an internet window (its a java game in a popup) that are "active" or even "inactive" all time.In example: I'm opening a MSN chat window, in the game a symbole next to my name changes to "ZZ", what i want to do is to make this "ZZ" won't appear
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Mar 4, 2011
I was wondering if there's a method to set the form as the active window (not topmost obviously), if it's currently not the active window (meaning another window is currently the active one). By active I mean "selected".
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Nov 15, 2009
I'm trying to send keys (or more precisely, paste the clipboard, i.e., send a "ctrl+v") to the foreground application and I'm sort of stuck since I can only find ways to send a keystroke at once.
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Oct 7, 2009
I have created a form containing a text box and a button. i would like to know if it is possible to embed this form in the title bar of the current active window that is opened eg: ie,notepad,word this is so that i can enter a word in the text box and use text to speech to say it or highlight a word in the active window and it will be placed in the text box of my form. i can position the form in the top right location but then the form position is stagnant.
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Feb 17, 2012
my vb net program runs an external batch file for some operations for 2 min,but when it starts to runmain form become unreadable and emptyalthough it has information
my code
RichTextBox1.AppendText( "cmd is running, can take up to 2 min to complete...")
RichTextBox1.Refresh()
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Sep 7, 2011
I have an application that gathers information from a user into a Win.Form and then uses the Process.Start() to start Notepad and then using Sendkeys write the Notepad document.Sometimes this works great and sometimes the Notepad window is not started as the foreground process and the document is not written.What is the best way to ensure that the window opened by Process.Start("Notepad.exe") is the active window for the duration of the Process?
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Dec 28, 2010
Known the external window size, it Hwnd and the x/y coordinates of the button to press, I am trying this code, like seen on the web[code]\...
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Jul 8, 2009
When I have two MDI Child forms opened, it is difficult to visually see the active form versus the non-active form.I would like to have the Active Form stand out more, say a yellow border.
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Mar 17, 2009
How do I make a certain tab inside TabControl to be active at form event?
For example, I want TabControl2 to be shown at form load.
TabControl2.focus isn't working.
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Apr 20, 2009
how do I set a form in the foreground and prevent it from being set to the background if another form is clicked... when a form comes up, i disabled the other forms so no object within them could be selected, but if i just click on them, the foreground form disappears... i want it to stay in the foreground until the user closes it manually...
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Apr 8, 2010
I have a small program I have designed to be able to sit in the background on my desktop, and whenever a new form is given focus (foreground) it's title and thread are recorded.
However, I would like the program to also report to me the X and Y coordinates of the foreground form. Could be any form NOT one that is attached to my program.
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May 5, 2010
How to programmatically change foreground color and make bold text in individual cell location on DataGridView control (Visual Basic)?
I use "dgMatrix.Rows(r).Cells(c).Value = x" to assign individual numeric values to individual cells in a DataGridView control. My question; is there a similar way to change foreground color and make bold the text in this cell, by specifying the individual row/column cell location?
For example; for cell (row 3, col 5) in the DataGridView make text in cell say red and bold or blue and bold so as to highlight and distinguish individual cell contents. As needed, I will also need to reset these properties (foreground back to automatic/black and font from bold back to regular); the reset could be done globally to the whole DataGridView as opposed to indiviaually by cell.
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Mar 30, 2009
I want to get the active control (control which has the focus or where the cursor is on) each time the cursor moves to another control or each time a control receives a focus.
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Jan 28, 2011
make a window change instead of a whole new form coming up(EX: when I press the next button, the layout of the page changes, but no extra forms)Well, If it is not worth it, it is not fun - you say programmers are boring but i say they are worth it.
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Nov 17, 2011
I have an application, in which i have some windows forms and About form.When i show these windows, As of now they are coming somewhere near screen top left. But i want them to come at the screen centre.
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Mar 19, 2012
I would like to make a window for example (calculator window) and set its parent to my form
But I would like this to be able to be flexible to where I Just have to specify the Window's exe path and its parameters.
Example: (pathTo)explorer.exe -documents
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Feb 16, 2011
What I wanna do is make mouse click on the Form/Window.Anywhere in the form/specified coordinates.So how can I?
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May 19, 2010
How can i get the name of the active window? like Internet explorer.
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May 1, 2011
im using VB 2008 is it possible to get active window name or id? for example i have active notepad window, now how i can get it's process name or process ?id(better is process id)
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Dec 28, 2011
I can get the caption of the current active window via this [code]....
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Oct 13, 2009
How to check if a window is active? My case is: I have a program which runs in maxmize mode, allways on top, with no option to close and then i run another program which will normally run behind my program, but i want to enter ok or something to that program when i press a button in my program.So i think first i will have to verify if that program is active then i need to send a key (enter) in order for it to continue running while my program is visible to user.
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Jul 22, 2009
Is there a way I can take a screenshot of a window that is not the active window? I want to give the user his current open windows and he select one of them as the target window for the SS, my target is to let him work on one window while my application will take ss of not active window.. what is the best way to accomplish that ?
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