Topmost Window

[martini]

Hi,
How do I set a window to the topmost position. I used
SetWindowPos( hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, Width, Height, 3)
This works in Windows95 but refuses to work on NT/2000.

Please advice me on this

Thanks and best regards
Shridhar

[raghu_nv]

In WinNT i successfully done it by this ,
SetWindowPos hwnd, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0,SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE

[martini]

Does not seem to work for me. When I move another window over it it hides behind that window

[softweng]

This Works Well For Me On All Windows Versions:

option Explicit
option private Module

public Const SWP_NOMOVE = 2
public Const SWP_NOSIZE = 1
public Const FLAGS = SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE
public Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1
public Const HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2

Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (byval hwnd as Long, byval hWndInsertAfter as Long, byval x as Long, byval y as Long, byval cx as Long, byvalcy as Long, byval wflags as Long) as Long

public Function SetTopMostWindow(hwnd as Long, Topmost as Boolean) as Long

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If Topmost = true then
SetTopMostWindow = SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS)
else
SetTopMostWindow = SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_NOTOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS)
SetTopMostWindow = false
End If

End Function


private Sub Form_Load()
Dim lr as Long

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'//set as Always on Top
lr = SetTopMostWindow(frmPLCSettings.hWnd, true)

End Sub


private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel as Integer)
Dim lr as Long

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'//Remove Always on Top Status
lr = SetTopMostWindow(frmPLCSettings.hWnd, false)

'//Unload The Form And set to nothing to Prevent Memory Leaks
Unload frmPLCSettings
set frmPLCSettings = nothing

End Sub





Kris
Software Engineer
Phoenix,AZ