Keeping a form on top with focus

[Blobtech]

Hi,

I have a project where I have set up a PC as a time clock, so our employees can clock in and out. It's a WIN98 PC so I've changed the Shell in the [Boot] section to run my program rather than Explorer when the PC boots up.

The swipe card reader I have connects to the keyboard port so the swipe card program needs to have focus for the data to be put into an textbox.

To stop our employees 'playing', I have diconnected the keyboard. If there are any problems, I am using PC Anywhere to connect to the PC. Unfortunately when I disconnect PC anywhere, my clocking program loses the focus. What I would like to know is, is it possible to always force a form to have focus? The frmMain_LostFocus event does not seem to fire.

Lee

 

[paulbent]

Have a look at:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q184/2/97.asp

Paul Bent
Northwind IT Systems

http://www.northwindit.co.uk

 

[Blobtech]

Thanks for the info Paul, unfortunately keeping the form on top does not stop the form losing the focus.

 

[paulbent]

How about using a Timer control and calling SetActiveWindow and SetForegroundWindow every 'n' seconds?

Paul Bent
Northwind IT Systems

http://www.northwindit.co.uk

 

[petevick]

In the forms Form_Deactivate event, add me,setfocus. The Form_Deactivate event occurs when an object is no longer the active window, so it should keep your app in focus.

Pete Vickerstaff - Hedra Software

http://www.hedrasoftware.co.uk

 

[Blobtech]

Thanks Paul, SetForeGroundWindow does the trick.

Pete, for some reason, the deactivate event is not firing.

Lee Greenwood