Lock Focus On a Form

[TGrahmann]

Hello, I am wondering if there is a way to lock focus on one form. I.E.: If I try to navigate to/click on another form, it resets focus to the focus locked form. Thanks!

 

[EzLogic]

Make a top level form?
Always On top?


Ez Logic
Michigan

 

[TamarGranor]

Is modal not sufficient? Are you trying to do this across all applications, or just within your application?

Tamar

 

[Olaf Doschke]

I agree with Tamar. If you need this for your own application you just need to set the form modal, which is done by setting WindowType to 1 at design time (this can't be decided at runtime after the form already started).

If you want this for whole windows, as she asks, then you may want your app to run as a kiosk app. That's not so easy, as even if you set your main top level form maximised and remove all control box buttons (close, shrink) users can still change to the desktop with ALT+TAB or Windows+M or the Task bar or run task manager with CTRL+ALT+DEL and perhaps even more options I don't think of right now. You would need a specific kiosk shell, eg see

http://www.bardon.com/winu.php

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

In regard to kiosk mode WinU looks very outdated. Maybe look out for

http://www.mirabyte.com/de/produkte/frontface-lockdown-tool/

in that case.

Bye, Olaf.