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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / October 2006VBA Word 2000 - make form stay on top of everything
I've seen posts on this topic, but none of them satisfy what I'm trying to do. Does anyone know of a way to make a form stay on top of all applications or even on top of all open Word documents? I want a form that stays on top even if I minimize its parent Window (the document from which it was launched). I want it to stay on top even if I click on another Word document. Is it possible? I've used the SetWindowPos function, but as soon as I minimize the form's parent, the form minimizes as well. I've tried using the SetParent function and the GetDesktopWindow function to make the desktop the forms parent, but for some reason the GetDesktopWindow seemed to return the same handle as the form's parent Word document. Any help would be greatly appreciated. OK, for clarification, I found the EXACT functionality I want to try to replicate. It still have not found a good solution. It must be possible because Word does it (somehow). I want to replicate the functionality of the Cross-reference dialog: In Word (I know this works in 2000 and 20003): - From the Insert menu, select Reference and then Cross-reference - Open another Word document - Click on the older document, then the newer, then the dialog Notice how the dialog stays on top of all Word documents, and doesn't bring its original parent to the front when you drag it around, and doesn't disappear when you minimize one of the documents. You can even kill its original parent and it won't go away. I figure there's got to be a way to do this since it's built into Word!! Any ideas? Thanks! > I've seen posts on this topic, but none of them satisfy what I'm trying > to do. Does anyone know of a way to make a form stay on top of all [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mark, > OK, for clarification, I found the EXACT functionality I want to try to > replicate. It still have not found a good solution. It must be [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > I figure there's got to be a way to do this since it's built into > Word!! Or it's Word making specific calls to the operating system's windowing functions. That doesn't necessarily mean Word provides the VBA functions to do what you want through VBA. Unless you also address the correct windowing functions through VBA code yourself by calling the operating system's windowing functions. ( I don't know what they are. ) Modeless forms is the closest Word seems to come to that type of window and modeless forms don't work with all versions of Word. > Any ideas? Thanks! > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  SignatureRuss drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID Good point Russ. Maybe just because you see it in Word doesn't mean that you can easily do it in VBA. I have found a list of win32 lib Windowing calls: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/win dowsuserinterface/windowing/windows/windowreference/windowfunctions/setparent.as p I've tried SetWindowPos, BringWindowToTop, and SetForegroundWindow, they all seemed to set the z-order for the Form temporarily - until another Word doc was activated and brought on top of the form. I also tried setting the form's parent to other things including the desktop - (GetDesktopWindow didn't work for some reason). It seems like what I want to do is set the form as a child of the application - not just a single document, but with the SDI design, I'm not sure how to do that. Hmmmmm.... any ideas? Thanks again, Mark > Mark, > [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > >> > >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mark, I'm out of my element using system calls, but I've noticed people using shell32.dll and wscript calls. Maybe these links will lead to the info you require. Google Groups Word search using shell32.dll http://tinyurl.com/gmmjx Google Groups Word search using wscript http://tinyurl.com/jfsgy > Good point Russ. Maybe just because you see it in Word doesn't mean > that you can easily do it in VBA. I have found a list of win32 lib [quoted text clipped - 60 lines] >>>> >>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. SignatureRuss drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID |
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