alcmist@well.sf.ca.us (Frederick Wamsley) (04/11/91)
You know how, in Write, the Find dialog floats on top of the document but
allows the parent to maintain the focus? In other words you can type
text into a document underneath the Find dialog.
That's easy to do. Normal WS_POPUP style will accomplish that much.
But suppose I want to get the same effect globally , and have a window
which floats over all other applications? How can that be done? It's
easy to keep it on the top, but all three of the obvious API's for
putting a window at the top of the Z order also activate it and give
it the focus.
Has anyone actually done this? If so, how?
(I do have a legitimate reason for doing something so nonstandard).
Thanks,
Fred
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"There's a perfectly logical explanation for all this"psheerin@zanzibar.saigon.com (Peter K. Sheerin) (04/18/91)
alcmist@well.sf.ca.us (Frederick Wamsley) writes: > > You know how, in Write, the Find dialog floats on top of the document but > allows the parent to maintain the focus? In other words you can type > text into a document underneath the Find dialog. > > .... It's > easy to keep it on the top, but all three of the obvious API's for > putting a window at the top of the Z order also activate it and give > it the focus. > > Has anyone actually done this? If so, how? Well, I know it's possible, as I have at least one of those free memory display programs that acomplishes that. The file was mem111.zip, or something like that.