Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!claris!szebra!zanzibar!psheerin From: psheerin@zanzibar.saigon.com (Peter K. Sheerin) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: How to do system-wide floating window? Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 23:51:40 GMT References: <24137@well.sf.ca.us> Organization: Zanzibar - 1/2 mile away from 52'nd Street Lines: 17 alcmist@well.sf.ca.us (Frederick Wamsley) writes: > > You know how, in Write, the Find dialog floats on top of the document but > allows the parent to maintain the focus? In other words you can type > text into a document underneath the Find dialog. > > .... It's > easy to keep it on the top, but all three of the obvious API's for > putting a window at the top of the Z order also activate it and give > it the focus. > > Has anyone actually done this? If so, how? Well, I know it's possible, as I have at least one of those free memory display programs that acomplishes that. The file was mem111.zip, or something like that.