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dfasasd
dfasasd

Reputation: 21

show window while in full screen

how can I show a window when I play a movie in full screen without exiting full screen mode of the movie player? I just want the window to apear on topof the movie. I know this is posible because yahoo messeger does it every time it showes you that a pearson has signed in or out , and I'm sure that there are other programs that do it also but I just can't remember now.

it can be in C/C++ mfc, win api , c# , wpf it doesn't mater.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2710

Answers (3)

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 613441

Just show the window with a z-order that places it on top of the full screen window. I think you can do this by calling SetWindowPos passing HWND_TOP. Something like this:

SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOP, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE);

You may want to include SWP_NOACTIVATE as well, or possibly some of the other SWP_*** options. You can check the uFlags parameter in the SetWindowPos function for the different SWP_*** messages.

Upvotes: 3

dfasasd
dfasasd

Reputation: 21

SetForegroundWindow will bring the player out of the full screen mode , and BringWindowToTop won't work. All other methodes sugested work if the window is from the same aplication as the video player, but what I need is to put a window in from of a video player ( which is in full screen ) that is from another aplication.

Upvotes: 0

ukhardy
ukhardy

Reputation: 2104

C# Use SetForegroundWindow() of user32.dll

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    // Sets the window to be foreground 
    [DllImport("User32")]
    private static extern int SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hwnd);
    // Activate or minimize a window 
    [DllImportAttribute("User32.DLL")]
    private static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);
    private const int SW_SHOW = 5;
    private const int SW_MINIMIZE = 6; private const int SW_RESTORE = 9;
    private void ActivateApplication(string strAppName)
    {
        Process[] pList = Process.GetProcessesByName(strAppName);
        if (pList.Length > 0)
        {
            ShowWindow(pList[0].MainWindowHandle, SW_RESTORE);
            SetForegroundWindow(pList[0].MainWindowHandle);
        }
    }

Upvotes: 0

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