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Title: How does FireFly do that?
Post by: Philipp Emanuel Weidmann on March 03, 2006, 12:39:59 PM

Paul,

I have a pretty strange question about a thing that I see in FireFly all the time and that I've been unable to figure out:

The workspace window can be highlighted (active title bar) at the same time as the main window. How the **** does that work? I looked at the window styles and Spy++ shows me a simple tool window. I copied all the styles and created an arrangement similar to yours but my program still can have just one highlighted window at a time.

I would really appreciate if you told me the "secret", or I'm afraid I'll start ripping my hair out in frustration.

Thank you,
Philipp

Title: How does FireFly do that?
Post by: TechSupport on March 03, 2006, 01:35:59 PM

Magic.....

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      Case %WM_NCACTIVATE 
         ' ensure that the caption bar retains its active state. This looks
         ' better than having it lose and gain active colors. 
         Function = %TRUE
         Exit Function

Title: How does FireFly do that?
Post by: Philipp Emanuel Weidmann on March 04, 2006, 01:10:42 PM

Magic indeed!

I had never seen this trick before. Thanks a bunch!

Philipp

Title: How does FireFly do that?
Post by: Roger Garstang on March 05, 2006, 07:21:29 AM

Cool! Eat the Activate change. I've used that for Topmost fixes, but never would have thought of that one.

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