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Flashing Window in SWT [message #444451]

Wed, 13 October 2004 07:51

Bart

Messages: 2
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Is there any possibility to make flashing window on taskbar using SWT??

Ps.
I know how to make it using dll

thx
Bart

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Re: Flashing Window in SWT [message #444655 is a reply to message #444451]

Tue, 19 October 2004 16:14

Charlton Rose

Messages: 7
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I don't speak for the SWT team, but it does not seem likely to become a
supported feature, as it may not be possible on all platforms. In
general (with a few exceptions), SWT is limited to supporting only
features that all OSs can support, sort-of like AWT (but much better).

Bart wrote:

>Is there any possibility to make flashing window on taskbar using SWT??
>
>Ps.
>I know how to make it using dll
>

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Re: Flashing Window in SWT [message #445070 is a reply to message #444451]

Mon, 25 October 2004 15:53

Steve Northover

Messages: 1636
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

The flashing window is a mechanism that XP uses to indicate that a
background application would like to bring a window to the top, but to do so
would steal focus from an application that has a foreground window. The
Windows API to do this is called SetForegroundWindow() and it is described
in painful detail here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/e n-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/windows/wind owreference/windowfunctions/setforegroundwindow.asp

If you call Shell.forceActive(), we call SetForegroundWindow(). Hope this
helps.

"Bart" <bjablonski@o2.pl> wrote in message news:ckimf7$ofv$1@eclipse.org...
> Is there any possibility to make flashing window on taskbar using SWT??
>
> Ps.
> I know how to make it using dll
>
> thx
> Bart
>
>

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