Re: CreateProcess( ... ) always on top of my app.

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:37:40 -0700

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"Simon" <bad@example.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I am launching an application from my own application using
CreateProcess(...).

As I do not want my application to 'hang' while the other is running I
start a thread that has a nice dialog always on top to indicate to the
user that the other app is running.

But if the user click on my application it automatically brings it to the
front.
Because of my dialog box this is not really a problem, the user cannot
really do anything, but ideally I would like to keep the other application
on top as it has its own 'progress'.

I don't necessarily want it to be the top most window, I would just like
to keep it on top of my Window.

How would you achieve that?

When your window was activated (WM_MOUSEACTIVATE and WM_ACTIVATE), you can
call SetWindowPos without SWP_NOZORDER and set your window underneath those
of the other apps. This is a real pain, it requires you to iterate using
FindWindow and find the other app's window.

Maybe you can tweak your design a little. Add a Minimize button to your
dialog to make it easy to get your app out of the way or something.

-- David