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Hi,

I hope someone can help me out with this:

My programm lists some items. With a double click on a selected item,
the item is being transfered into a ms-word document. The "normal" Windows
behaviour would cause my programm to drop into background - a taskbar entry
remains...To bring my application back into business i used the
Application.BringToFront Command. This works fine so far. But - it
only works with my developement workstation. if i install my programm
on another PC, without the delphi environment, the application is not
"breaking through". It stays in the background - the taskbar entry is
blinking.

What is wrong - is there a special BPL, that i have to install?
or what could it be?

any hint would be fantastic!

Hi longhugo
I think that is not issue of Delphi environment, it looks like you have different Windows versions (W98 and W2K)

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Hi ITugay,
no - both systems are Win98SE :(

Hi.

Does this solve your problem?
-> http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/en/showcode.php?id=261

Markus

There was a setting somewhere (in Windows) to prevent applications to steal the focus.

See at Explorer options, or TweakUI tool

Bojidar Alexandrov

ASKER

Bojidar,

do you know where i can find the settings exactly?

longhugo

Get TweakUI - tool from Microsoft
On General Page.

ASKER

Doesn't work (tried HKAY_LOCAL_USER\Control Panel\Desktop with ForegroundLockTimeout=0 (bin))

any other ideas?

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thx - u r the best