How to know which application is currently active from a different App 1

[onlyadghosh]

Hi,
I have an event based 2 tier application. Now when my application is running, if I activate a different application( for ex. win explorer)and starts working in it, my application becomes active after receiving an event from backend. But I do not want my application to be active after receiving an event. It should process the event but should not come up.

Pls help me in this regard, I urgently need to prevent this.

Thanxs in Advance.

 

[apatterno]

Hello onlyadghosh,

Well it seems as though the title of your post is different from its content, but I will answer both questions.

>> How to know which application is currently active from a different App

[tt]HWND hwndForeground = GetForegroundWindow();
DWORD dwActivePID;
GetWindowThreadProcessID(hwndForeground,&dwActivePID);[/tt]

>> application becomes active after receiving an event from backend

It is not the default behavior for a window to bring itself to the foreground upon receiving an "event" (still not sure exactly what you mean by "event&quot. Therefore, if that behavior occurs in your code, it is because you put it in there.

If you are borrowing code from somewhere else, I would double-check all calls to SetForegroundWindow, ShowWindow and SetWindowPos.

_{I REALLY hope that helps.}
Will