edwardlts
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SetForegroundWindow problem
This is my sample code:
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SetForegroundWindow(hwnd);
status = MessageBox(NULL, "Please enter password ..",
"Smart Card Reader", MB_OKCANCEL | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION |MB_TASKMODAL);
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This piece of code runs fine in WIN 95/98/NT but not in Win2K. In Win2K the messagebox will prompted behind my active dialog. Please advice me on how to solve this? I'm using Visual C++ 5
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SetForegroundWindow(hwnd);
status = MessageBox(NULL, "Please enter password ..",
"Smart Card Reader", MB_OKCANCEL | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION |MB_TASKMODAL);
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This piece of code runs fine in WIN 95/98/NT but not in Win2K. In Win2K the messagebox will prompted behind my active dialog. Please advice me on how to solve this? I'm using Visual C++ 5
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I don't quite understand why you are calling SetForegroundWindow before displaying your message box. Are you trying to change the way the message box is displayed through this function call? Also, I'd recommend you call MessageBox( hwnd, ... ); instead of specifying NULL as the owner.
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Is there any other alternative besides setting to MB_SYSTEMMODAL? I mean when you set to SYSTEMMODAL the OS will treat it as higher priority, right?
BringWindowToTop( hwnd ) instead of SetForegroundWindow( hwnd ).
Try using MB_TOPMOST flag in MessageBox API and let me know