Restoring Focus on Common Dialog when switching apps

[yumbelie]

Hi,
I have an MDI window, which has a number of forms within it. If one of these forms calls a common dialog (for example to search for a file), and then decides while the common dialog is open to switch Applications (e.g. to Windows Explorer etc) and then switches back, the focus is lost on the common dialog. The user must alt-tab to select the common dialog in order to be able to interact with it and restore focus to the MDI dialog that called it. Is there any way in which I can automatically restore focus to the common dialog if the user decides to switch to another application, and then switch back?

thanks

Yum.

 

[tsdragon]

I would say that the answer to your question is yes. Try coding a gotFocus event handler for the form that checks if the common dialog is still displayed, and if so set the focus to it (or one of it's controls).

Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[yumbelie]

Thanks, I'll give it a whirl.