rcearley
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How to make winforms application keep focus
I have a winforms application that has one form. That form responds to F keys such as F1, F2, F3, etc. If that application is in focus, I can press F1 and the application will execute the command I have tied to F1.
If a user clicks away from my application and presses F1, then my application is not able to respond to the F1 key.
How can I force my application to keep focus. I tried setting topmost to true, but that makes my form stay on top, but you can still click on another application the the focus will leave my app.
If a user clicks away from my application and presses F1, then my application is not able to respond to the F1 key.
How can I force my application to keep focus. I tried setting topmost to true, but that makes my form stay on top, but you can still click on another application the the focus will leave my app.
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Haha...sounds like you had a blast with that one... ;)
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Lol...if you had responded back to the thread and requested more info I would have gladly given you more detailed answers!
I left it wide open with my last question:
"Are you open to either of these approaches?"
Participate in your thread next time and you might get even better answers... =)
I left it wide open with my last question:
"Are you open to either of these approaches?"
Participate in your thread next time and you might get even better answers... =)
I remember when I was a junior, I had written an app that wouldn't let you loose focus (using a class somebody else had originally done), but I forgot to modify it for messageboxs... oh what a joy that was having to do a hard reboot as you couldn't even Ctrl + Alt + Del.