Bring a Labview Application to Front

[nico_de]

Hi,
I have got an application ran when a user click on a .bsd file in explorer. the problem is the following : When the application has already been opened, this one is staying in the background. I tried to use the tool "Bring To Front", but without any succes. It makes only the application blinking in the Task-bar. Do you have any Idea about how to solve this?
Thanks
Nicolas Minary

[Mads]

It was a bit more difficult than I would assume, but there is at least one way of doing it;

Use the window functions of the LabVIEW Windows Utilities:

http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.DISPLAY_EPD4?p_guid=B45EACE3EF4556A4E034080020E74861&p_node=DZ53008&p_submitted=N&p_rank=&p_answer=&p_source=External

Now to get the behaviour you want you need to run the restore window vi, then the always on top window..(set it to activate the window as well).and then the revoke always on top vi...the application will still blink on the task bar, but the window will be restored, put on top and activated.

Mads

[Mads]

By the way:

The reason I call the always on top window.vi and then revoke that and not just call the put on top window...is that that does not seem to work...

[nico_de]

Hi
Thanks first for this library which is very usefull !!
but it doesn´t work as I would like : even with the following sequence, the windows stay behind, and is only blinking in the task bar.
1/ Restore Windows
2/ "Make windows always on top.vi" (activate=True)
3/ "Revoke Windows alwas on top.vi"

The thing which work fine is when I use "Make windows always on top.vi" , the windows stay on top.

Does this 3-steps sequence work on your computer and make the windows appearing?
I put this sequence in a condition : when an element enter the queue (means that someone clicks on a file), new parameters are printed, and this sequence is runned.
Thanks again
Nicolas

[Mads]

Yes it does...

I assume you make sure the revoke happens after the set on top by wiring the error output of the first to the input of the next...

Perhaps if you wait a while after setting it to always be on top before you revoke? That is, if it's ok that it's always on top then off course just skip the revoke...having it always on top can be anoying though.

If you want you could upload the file here or send a copy of the vi to my e-mail address (mads@clampon.no) and I'll check what, if anything, you do differently...