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Garrett
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 Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 5:14 am Post subject: Always Active Window? |
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Back working on my appbar program again. Does anyone know if there's a way to make my window always active even if the user is using another window? I don't want to take the focus away from any other programs, I just don't want my menu texts to go gray when my appbar loses focus.
Thanks in advance,
~Garrett
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LiquidCode
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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I think I may have something. I'll take a look and get back to you. If you don't hear from me within a day post another message to remind me.
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LiquidCode
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Give this a try. The dialog need to be set to always ontop
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#define command,addstyleex
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#get id of window
%%id = @winexists(#OSK)
# make sure the dialog window is always ontop and this should work
%%ws_ex_noactivate = $08000000
addstyleex %%id,%%WS_EX_NOACTIVATE
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:AddStyleEx
%%wndstyleex = @lib(user32,GetWindowLongA,INT,INT:@strdel(%1,1,1),INT:-20)
%%newwndstyleex = @sum(%2,%%WndStyleEx)
%a = @lib(user32,SetWindowLongA,INT,INT:@strdel(%1,1,1),INT:-20,INT:%%NewWndStyleEx)
exit
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Garrett
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:57 am Post subject: |
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No errors on the code, but did not achieve the desired effect.
Here's what worked in another language I tried: DS_SETFOREGROUND
Now I don't know if that's an API reference or an internal reference for the language I was checking out, but it worked as in intended in the other language.
I'm trying to avoid using the other language simply because it's more complex to make a program with than VDS. And I also have all the code work done for the program I'm making in VDS, it simply is missing this one feature/function.
Thanks a bunch,
~Garrett
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cnodnarb
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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0x00000200 is DS_SETFOREGROUND
My code might be off here, but maybe?
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%%DS_SETFOREGROUND = $0000200
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THE PROBLEM IS this is not set window, this is only used in CreateWindow and CreateWindowEx |
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Garrett
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 12:24 am Post subject: |
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After some poking around.. You are correct and there's not a thing we can do on this one since it has to be applied at the dialog creation. 
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