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Hi, i'm using a Form to show notifications (it appears at the bottom right of the screen) but the problem that i'm having is that when I show this form it steals the main form focus. Is there a way to show this "notification" form without stealing focus...
Started by Matías on
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by 10 people.
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Using pure.
Be on top
Edit: Note, this merely raises an already created form without stealing focus.
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Are there any solutions to prevent applications stealing focus from the active window? This is especially annoying when I'm starting an application, switch to do something else and the new application starts receiving half a sentence of text.
Started by Pacifika on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Checking this option prevents....
This can happen for a number stealing is to use Tweak UI which has a setting that is called “Prevent applications from stealing focus”.
Applications steal the focus of the active window by popping up.
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This question is little different from preventing an application from stealing focus, rather how can I find out what the heck is stealing focus?
It goes like this. I'll be typing something in Firefox on Vista (as I am now). Every few minutes something...
Started by Bill Reardon on
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by 7 people.
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I'm suspecting it's a DOS prompt quickly executing, stealing focus.
Failing that try alt-F4 which sends I'm suffering as well .
Menu that might help work out what app is stealing the focus.
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We have a 3rd party control loaded in our C# WinForms app.
When we call a method on this 3rd party ActiveX control, it asynchronously steals focus. For example:
// This call causes 3rd party to spawn a thread and steal focus milliseconds later. foo3rdParty...
Started by Judah Himango on
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by 4 people.
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If....
Make the call to the third-party control's method.
Attach a handler to the active control which gets called when it loses focus .
You could try this rough approach:
Find which control has focus before you make the call, say using Form.ActiveControl .
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I have iGoogle as my home page. Every time that I start up Firefox with the intent to go to a specific page, I end up typing half the URL in the Google search box when iGoogle steals focus away from the URL bar. Is there any way to hack Firefox (or iGoogle...
Started by LinkTiger on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
If you.
Whenever you open up Firefox, you'll be greeted by a blank page that doesn't steal your focus.
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Every time I update Quicktime on both Vista and XP, I lose file associations I made for VLC (my preferred player). I only keep QT around for the odd browser video, and would prefer to keep it without it surprising me every couple months by stealing file...
Started by ray on
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by 4 people.
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Wish I could remember....
Buried in the advanced setup there is a checkbox to keep it from checking and reclaiming .
If I remember correctly, QuickTime has some stuff in its settings about file associations, or something that takes you to a tool to manage them .
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I am writing an application in Java that places an icon in the system tray (via SWT ). When this icon is clicked, I wish to have it automatically type some keys (via the Robot class) into whatever text field is in focus at the time of clicking (could ...
Started by Adam Paynter on
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Robot robot....
Although it cannot be considered an official solution, I have been finding some success by issuing ALT+TAB key strokes immediately before issuing the textual key strokes .
This issue been discussed before.
Probably not, at least not easily.
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Due to my reluctance to purchase Windows 7 I keep getting popups telling me that I might be the victim of software counterfitting. I think I'll stick to that story. The only problem is that the popups keep stealing focus of other windows, particularly...
Started by Ben Shelock on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Now that's out of the way....
Buy the bloody thing , it's not expensive, and the full version is slightly better than the betas .
Sorry, but I don't think anyone is going to provide this for you here .
You're asking for help to prevent anti-piracy measures.
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I have a fullscreen window with the Topmost property set to true. Whenever an application changes its WindowState property, my window is automatically minimized even though it has the active focus. For example, the code below exemplifies the problem. ...
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If this is a kiosk application and you are the only program running on the computer then... .
Otherwise I'll second Henk's recomendation.
Perhaps this is what you want: Windows Form in Full Screen "Kiosk Mode" .
You may want to investigate "Kiosk Mode".
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I am learning and using Emacs. What I found annoying is that Ctrl-Space input will be stolen by Windows XP to switch the language bar instead of setting the mark in Emacs. The "language bar" is the native input languages selection such as Chinese keyboard...
Started by Dean on
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by 5 people.
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Click the Key....
Button.
Click the Languages tab, then the Details...
Go to the Regional and Language Options Control Panel.
You can also change the hot key for the language bar .
I've not seen this personally, but I also always disable the Language Bar .
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