SetWindowPos & taskbar?

Try this instead:

Private Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32" Alias "SetForegroundWindow" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long


dim lngRet as long
lngRet = SetForegroundWindow(me.hwnd)




Let me know if that works for you.
Brian

>>how can i have my program above the windows taskbar?

Dont think you can unless your program is full screen.


-Brian

Hi Mark_FreeSoftware,

this snippet worked for me
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Private 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, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long
Private Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2
Private Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1
Private Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1
Private Const HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2

Private Sub Form_DblClick()
Unload Me
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
    SetWindowPos hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE
End Sub

Private Sub Form_QueryUnload(Cancel As Integer, UnloadMode As Integer)
    SetWindowPos hwnd, HWND_NOTOPMOST, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE
End Sub
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i could move my form over all other forms and over the taskbar, then i tried your code and it worked too staying on top over all forms even when not activated not sure if this is windows version related as i'm working on windows 2003 server

where have you placed your code in the form load or not?

hope this helps a bit
bruintje

missed that comment, sorry

@ BrianGEFF719

that didnt work,

i discovered that the api i use actually works, as long as no other screen of my application has the focus

so whenever i open the options screen, my app suddenly disappears behind the taskbar!


what could be causing this?

Thats because you have the option enabled in windows to keep the taskbar ontop of all windows.

Right click Start button on windows and you will see the option.

Right click, choose properties.. my bad

>>Or you could just use the same API again on the newly opened window in your application, just perform the same api call in every form load.

that did it, thanks!