Regaining focus

McBainUK · 2009-12-31, 01:48 PM

Hi all, I wonder if I can pick your brains...

My plugin launches external programs which take the focus away from GB-PVR. What's a good way of regaining/restoring the focus to the GB-PVR window using C#?

Ommina · 2009-12-31, 03:26 PM

I used this thread (somewhat modified) to restore focus to GB-PVR when returning from the external app.

I'm not aware of any .NET specific commands to make it happen, but the code from that thread works quite well.

Happy to send a copy of what I've done, but it's in VB.NET, so you'll have to massage it to C#.

McBainUK · 2009-12-31, 04:31 PM

Requires more testing but the SetForegroundWindow/SetFocus calls seem to be working. Thanks Smile

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