How to make a windows form to come front in windows application done in c# ?

Question

I have done a global mouse event in my windows application. When i click the center button of my mouse, i want to make a particular form topmost...

There are some applications which runs in the full screen mode, so i need to do this, in order to make my form visible to the users, because this is the only way to view it. Since Alt + Tab is disabled. This is a Kiosk application.

I tried using Topmost = true for that particular form and I tried using below code...But no use. I am not getting my form in front.

  [DllImport("User32.dll")]
  public static extern Int32 SetForegroundWindow(int hWnd);  

  [DllImport("user32.dll")]
  public static extern int FindWindow(string lpClassName, string  lpWindowName);         

     private void BringToFront(string className,string CaptionName)
    {
        SetForegroundWindow(FindWindow(className,CaptionName));
    }

The global hotkey which has to trigger this form to bring front is working perfectly.

How to make my form come front ??? Thanks.

Answer 1

Not my thing but have you tried messing with:

this.BringToFront();

this.Activate();

Answer 2

You need set the fullscreen form's topmost to false, then continue on.

Answer 3

You may not be calling your BringToFront method correctly. For the FindWindow API function, lpClassName would be your application's name (e.g. "MyApplication.exe"), while lpWindowName refers to the caption in the particular form's title bar (e.g. "Form1"). Usually with FindWindow you pass in one or the other, eg:

FindWindow("MyApplication.exe", null);
// or
FindWindow(null, "Form1");

I'm not sure what happens when you pass both.

You may also just need to do something simple to achieve this, like calling the particular form's Activate() method.

Answer 4

get the handle of the window and do this

SetWindowPos(hwnd,HWND_TOPMOST,0,0,0,0,SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE| SWP_SHOWWINDOW);