Child window stuck behind parent window
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I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, but I was just wondering if there's any sort of keyboard short cut to force child windows of a program to the front. I was working on some data in a child window, and another program popped up for some reason. I went to click back to the program I was using and the main window popped up with the child window I was working in behind it. Anything I click on in the parent window just makes a "Ding!" because it's waiting for input from the child window, which is hidden. Alt+Tab does nothing. All I can do is shut down the program and lose the data I was working on. It's pissing me off. Please, help, if you can. Thanks in advance.
"Go to, I’ll no more on’t; it hath made me mad." - Hamlet
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I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, but I was just wondering if there's any sort of keyboard short cut to force child windows of a program to the front. I was working on some data in a child window, and another program popped up for some reason. I went to click back to the program I was using and the main window popped up with the child window I was working in behind it. Anything I click on in the parent window just makes a "Ding!" because it's waiting for input from the child window, which is hidden. Alt+Tab does nothing. All I can do is shut down the program and lose the data I was working on. It's pissing me off. Please, help, if you can. Thanks in advance.
"Go to, I’ll no more on’t; it hath made me mad." - Hamlet
There is no magic shortcut for that unless the application you're using exposes such functionality. Alt-Tab will switch between applications, or anything else that shows up on the TaskBar. I would say that you have to either move the parent window before working with the children or move the child windows after they appear. The best solution would be to go back to the manufacturer of the app and asks them to fix it.
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There is no magic shortcut for that unless the application you're using exposes such functionality. Alt-Tab will switch between applications, or anything else that shows up on the TaskBar. I would say that you have to either move the parent window before working with the children or move the child windows after they appear. The best solution would be to go back to the manufacturer of the app and asks them to fix it.
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2006, 2007, 2008someone should tell microsoft how to fix this - I'm sick and tired of having visual studio (2005 and 2008) open a modal dialog behind the main window, and not let me bring it to the front because the main window has lost focus and is refusing to budge. Anyone else grown to hate that 'donk' sound it makes when you click on it and nothing happens? The only way out is to press escape, but that doesn't always work either; then the only thing to do is kill it in process explorer. Task manager can't do it, it's too polite, and vs says 'can't close because it's waiting for input'. Does it still do that in VS2010? I'm hoping that with the switch to WPF, the entire gui will have been overhauled too.
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someone should tell microsoft how to fix this - I'm sick and tired of having visual studio (2005 and 2008) open a modal dialog behind the main window, and not let me bring it to the front because the main window has lost focus and is refusing to budge. Anyone else grown to hate that 'donk' sound it makes when you click on it and nothing happens? The only way out is to press escape, but that doesn't always work either; then the only thing to do is kill it in process explorer. Task manager can't do it, it's too polite, and vs says 'can't close because it's waiting for input'. Does it still do that in VS2010? I'm hoping that with the switch to WPF, the entire gui will have been overhauled too.
andy_p wrote:
Does it still do that in VS2010?
What? I've never had it happen, in VS2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, or in 2010.
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andy_p wrote:
Does it still do that in VS2010?
What? I've never had it happen, in VS2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, or in 2010.
A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^]
Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007, 2008
But no longer in 2009...