More than one "active" form

[tommesbx]

Quite a tricky one here: for my application I need one form on top of another, but both should be look like they're active. My problem here: I declare the form on the top to be topMost, but if it loses its focus to the one behind, it also changes the color of the titlebar from blue (active) to grey (inactive). But I want the form look like they're both active, no matter which one got the focus. MDI and the topMost-Value didn't help me out here, because one form always loses its focus.

 

So I'm looking for a workaround: if only I could change the color of the titlebar of the background form to blue, so that it looks like it is focused, I'd propably get what I want. But since there's no property to do this, I'm stuck. Anyone knows how to solve my problem?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Nerseus]

Other than custom drawing, I can't think of any way to do what you want. Windows has the concept of a focused window per process (or thread - I'm not sure) and there's no built-in way around that. You *might* be able to do it by putting the second form in another thread but that seems like a lot of work.

 

What's wrong with one window looking active and the other not? I like to know which window has focus without having to scan a form for the little blinking cursor to tell me.

 

-Nerseus