How to show a form without taking the focus?

cylix2000

I have make a form (bollon) just have the same function and appearence of new email arrive in Outlook 2003. It shows very nice, but it take the focus when I show the ballon. How can I show it but without take the focus? Thank you!

sathish s

Are you using VB.Net? If so, you can use Form.SendToBack() Method Just after Form.Show() Make sure TopMost property of the form is set to false and you dont use Form.ShowDialog()

cylix2000

Sorry, My situation is, Show the box topmost, but doesn't take the focus from main form.

sathish s

Good then, what you can do is

Dim frmChild As New ChildForm
fr.Show()
Me.Activate()

PS: You can't use ShowDialog