Thanks Larry, I've done the windows stuff before in VB and it was difficult to get that right. I imagine it is even worse from within RBase.
I'll pass your second solution on, and hope it will work out. Dennis ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 1:41 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Form Focus Question << The two forms move around the desktop together, one below the other, using a timer to achieve this. I thought we could use this eep but we can only tell when the forms have moved, not whether focus has returned to one of them. >> Well, I think you could work along these lines. I suspect there's either a direct call you can make into Windows to learn whether a particular window is on top, or to get it's zorder, or has focus, or belongs to the _application_ with focus; or else it would be fairly straightforward to write a UDF to do this. You could make that call in your timer and then, if it turns out your window or application is on top, bring the other window to the fore as well. Another idea. Are the two forms in your application ALWAYS linked this way, or are they used separately elsewhere? If they're always associated, what I sometimes to is write a single form with two "appearances". The user switch between them with a "Details" button, which makes the form larger and exposes some more controls. This has a similar effect, but uses only one window. -- Larry
