Bring a window to front

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VS2012

I have a WPF and an enter button on it, when i click enter, a new WPF is opened. But it is behind first WPF, so i used this,

mw2.ShowDialog();
     mw2.BringWindowToTop();

or

C#

mw2.ShowDialog();
     mw2.BringToFront();

but VS says "does not contain the definition"

How can i Bring that window to front.

Thanks.

Posted 6-Feb-13 4:21am

Hslldm

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CHill60 6-Feb-13 10:28am

does mw2.Activate work?

Hslldm 7-Feb-13 3:35am

No but,mw2.Owner = this; solved!

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Solution 1

mw2.Activate(); will attempt to bring the window to the front and focus on it.

Posted 6-Feb-13 4:31am

Pete O'Hanlon

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Hslldm 6-Feb-13 10:50am

I wrote like this but didnt work.

else
{
mw2.ShowDialog();
mw2.Activate();
}
}
}

Pete O'Hanlon 6-Feb-13 10:58am

That's because you're creating a dialog. A dialog doesn't return to the calling code until it's closed, so it won't hit the Activate. I apologise because when I read your question, for some reason, I thought you'd called Show() and not ShowDialog().

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Alan N · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-06T04:50:00

Solution 2

To me the question is not "How do I bring it to the front" but why did it not come to the front automatically?

The only situation in which I have seen a dialog not come to the front was when the creating window was TopMost and the dialog's Owner property had not been set.

Setting the Owner should force the dialog to the front.

Alan.

Posted 6-Feb-13 4:50am

Alan N

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Hslldm 6-Feb-13 10:55am

How can i do that?

CHill60 6-Feb-13 11:08am

mw2.Owner = this; will set the owner, but that didn't solve the problem when I tried it. mw2.TopMost = true; seems to work ... or you can remove the .TopMost = true on the first form

Hslldm 6-Feb-13 11:12am

"does not contain a definition for TopMost " gives this error

Hslldm 6-Feb-13 11:36am

mw2.Owner = this; solved! Thanks

CHill60 7-Feb-13 4:24am

aha! Didn't work for me with Windows Forms in VS2005 but clearly does work with VS2012 and WPF ... just goes to show that Microsoft *do* fix things occasionally ;-p

Alan N 7-Feb-13 4:52am

In winforms the equivalent is ShowDialog(IWin32Window owner).