Jason P. wrote:
Jeremy White wrote:
Sometimes it fires the Activate, sometimes it doesnt...odd, and
annoying to have it grab the cursor away, if only for brief moments,
It can stop you typing at just the right time..
Very interesting example. I checked that the win32-gui show method is
passing the correct parameters to the MS API function ShowWindow - and
it is, so the problem is not there. The only thing I can think of is
when you are manipulating the window one of the methods is somehow
performing an implicit activate?
From looking at the code both Move() and Resize() use SetWindowPos
without setting SWP_NOACTIVATE, so both calls will result in the window
being activated. (If I understand the interaction between not using
SWP_NOACTIVATE and using SWP_NOZORDER, which isn't exactly clear)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/windows/windowreference/windowfunctions/setwindowpos.asp
I came accross the AnimateWindow function:
That's definitely the way to go from what I have read (although I have
never used it)
It appears that it is being called when I reset the size and position
after hiding, and then again when the forced animation begins collapsing
it down. Activate is not called again while it is collapsing, but then
it already has active and focus while its doing this operation at high
speed.
My thoughts are that it is somewhere doing this in the size and or
location algorithms.
Both I believe.
While I have your ear regarding fancy features... Do you know of the
method to display those little Tooltip messages that windows uses?
I'm not aware of perlTray (that you refer to in your other mail) - do
you mean balloon tooltips? The ones that pop up looking like a speech
balloon above the taskbar, sometimes with an icon in them? I seem to
remember stumbling across some threads discussing this on the list - a
search of the list archives might be in order?
Regards,
Rob.
