Focusing a preview

[Bengt]

I would like to bring a preview that is behind another window to the front. How can that be done?

For choosing between several printouts, I open a panel from my order entry view and press a button on the panel for previewing the desired document. To minimize mouse clicking, I then close the panel by a program statement which means that the order entry view will be focused hiding the preview. Is there a way to bring the preview to the front in this situation?

Bengt

[IDEAL Software Support]

I don't know, what programming language you are using.

If you are using the VPE Control (i.e. for .NET, Delphi VCL, Java or as ActiceX), see the method Focus(). An alternative way is, to embed the VPE preview within a form window of your application, and to handle the focus of the form with the methods provided by your development language / framework.

When using the VPE DLL, retrieve the Window handle of the VPE preview window with VpeWindowHandle() and call the Windows API function BringWindowToTop().

[Bengt]

I use VisualDataflex 17.1 and DPE4VDF. Retrieving the Window handle of the VPE preview window with VpeWindowHandle() works, but it doesn't seem to be possible to call BringWindowToTop() fore some reasons. I tried with SetFocus() instead but it had no effect.

[IDEAL Software Support]

We are no experts for the Visual DataFlex development environment. I recommend you contact a forum or a person with such skills.