What do you think about using this rare API [beginning from WinXP] in LCLIntf fnction? It will make LCL function work more stable: window will always go to foreground. I used it in CudaText. It works.

https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText/blob/master/app/fix_focus_window.pas

What are the equivalents for Qt, Qt5, Gtk2, Carbon, Cocoa?

Ondrej

Ondrej Pokorny wrote

What are the equivalents for Qt, Qt5, Gtk2, Carbon, Cocoa?

For anything running under X11 I have never had a problem with

   XRaiseWindow(xapplication.display, FWinHandle);

So Qt and GTK could you that, if they aren't already.

Regards,
Graeme

Ondrej Pokorny wrote

What are the equivalents for Qt, Qt5, Gtk2, Carbon, Cocoa?

I meaned - to use in _inside_ LCLIntf.SetForegrondWindow, not making new LCL func.

I would advise strongly against the use of SwitchToThisWindow API function in Lazarus. Mainly because it states in the docs: /This function is not intended for general use. It may be altered or unavailable in subsequent versions of Windows./

Read more in Raymond Chen's blog - The life story of the SwitchToThisWindow function:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20111107-00/?p=9183

Denis

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