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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why does SetFocus fail?
Message-ID: <106580025@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 89 17:10:56 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> This works fine except when the app loses the focus and then regains
> it (e.g., if I alt-tab to the dos executive and back).  In response to
> the WM_ACTIVATEAPP message, I call SetFocus with one of the child's
> handles.  However, the child does not get the focus;....

How about doing the SetFocus when the parent receives the WM_ACTIVATE
message?  I can't remember exactly what order ACTIVATEAPP and ACTIVATE
come in, and I think that DefWindowProc calls SetFocus on WM_ACTIVATE.

--Bill Turner