Timer Event on fire bring back form to front 1

[Ris1]

I have a form which refreshes grid data in 1 min. using timer. On drilldown another form is opened showing details of that record.
Now, while viewing 2 form if timer event of first form is fired then it comes above 2nd form. How can I avoid such behaviour . I want timer to just update data in that grid but that form should not come in front of any other form opened.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Well, Disable the timer on form.deactivate and enable it on activate, that would be one simple solution.

I'm not sure you could Refresh() without that causing to let focus go to the grid, but the other way around, if you set focus to the grid, you sure cause the form to become active, too. So avoid that.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Mike Lewis]

The way I would do this would be to NOT refresh the grid. In your timer, update the grid's underlying data, that is, the cursor or table that is used to populate the grid, but don't refresh to grid or the form. If the user is working in Form 1, that won't be a problem because the grid will show the fresh data as soon as it receives focus. If you are working on Form 2, nothing will appear to happen, but when you close Form 2, focus will return to Form 1 and the grid will automatically be refreshed.

Mike

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[Olaf Doschke]

I think a difference is still possible in Refresh() vs Setfocus(), so you might even be able to show new data in the form if it's inactive and only partially showing.

But anyway, just requerying data is enough and if you only aim for the form becoming active again, that's easiest to do when disabling/enabling the timer as it is programmed currently. A Timer has an Enabled property, and that's all you toggle.

Bye, Olaf.