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How To Keep Your Form/Window On Top

Windows API

How To Keep Your Form/Window On Top

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If you would like to keep your window on top follow these steps - Add this code to your project you will need to add a timer named timer1 and add a checkbox named Check1 set the caption to "Stay On Top" set the timers interval to 1000 - (the lower the interval the quicker the window gets to the top) although 1000 should be fine since it is ever second
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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
Const SWP_NOMOVE = 2
Const SWP_NOSIZE = 1
Const FLAGS = SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE
Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1
Const HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2


Private Sub Check1_Click()
If Check1.Value = True Then
Timer1.Enabled = True
ElseIf Check1.Value = False Then
res& = SetWindowPos(me.hwnd, HWND_NOTOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS)
Timer1.Enabled = False
End If
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
res& = SetWindowPos(me.hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS)
End Sub
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