Prevent Application from Getting Focus

[hercemer]

I am writing a virtual keyboard as on overlay for 3rd party apps. I am trying to find a way to keep the .NET keyboard from ever taking the focus from the 3rd part app (started by the .NET App) to prevent the title bar flickering etc...

 

I have tried this link

http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?t=81013&highlight=prevent+focus

But it appears to be for 2 windows in the same .NET app, not 1 .NET app and other programs.

 

I am using VB.NET and sendkeys/sendmessage (depending on the user options).

 

Thanks in advance!

[hercemer]

Found the solution

 

For anyone interested...

 

Private Const WS_EX_NOACTIVATE = &H8000000

 

Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As System.Windows.Forms.CreateParams

Get

Dim cp As CreateParams = MyBase.CreateParams

cp.ExStyle = cp.ExStyle Or WS_EX_NOACTIVATE

Return cp

End Get

End Property

 

I am writing a virtual keyboard as on overlay for 3rd party apps. I am trying to find a way to keep the .NET keyboard from ever taking the focus from the 3rd part app (started by the .NET App) to prevent the title bar flickering etc...

 

I have tried this link

http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?t=81013&highlight=prevent+focus

But it appears to be for 2 windows in the same .NET app, not 1 .NET app and other programs.

 

I am using VB.NET and sendkeys/sendmessage (depending on the user options).

 

Thanks in advance!