config dialog on-top

[dalanik]

Hi,

If any kind sould could set me on track how to set plugin configuration dialog ontop. Whatever I do, I always have it showing underneath XLobby config dialog (F2)....

Cheers,

D.

[badubo]

set your form as topmost

[dalanik]

set your form as topmost

Thanx... took me some time to find the topmost in properties...

[dalanik]

Not to waste another topic Decided to use this one, it's similar....

Anyways... I'm experimenting with plugin and I wanted to open a dialog/window from it. Now, when I do something like

Dialog1.Show()

for configuration dialog, it works fine.

but when I do it inside plugin itself (i.e. from a command), it just fails to open anything....

With my limited knowlegde of windows programming it is possible that i'm overlooking something, so I decided to ask the experts

Funny that, when I comile my project as EXE (w/o all the XLobby plugin things), I am able to open dialog (i.e. from a form by button click), but not via command in XLobby....

any clues?

Thanx,

Dalibor

[dalanik]

Now that I observe it more carfully - the dialog pops open and closes immediately....

D.

[art]

I'm no expert, but you could try something like this, providing that your form is called Form1:

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Dim myForm As New Form1
myForm.ShowDialog()


[dalanik]

I'm no expert, but you could try something like this, providing that your form is called Form1:

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Dim myForm As New Form1
myForm.ShowDialog()


Thanx, that occured to me and it behaved slightly better, but I still have problems that I don't have in normal windows application, I don't know whether because I'm compilinng a .dll or because of XLobby... It's either not positioned correctly or not on top or dissapears or not correct size or something

Again - funny that when I compile it as an normal exe (and remove all xlobby required stuff) it all works as it should...

D.

[badubo]

I guess that the problem is that your dialog is created on a separe thread (the one of the event) and then as the thread disappear, the dialog UI is killed.

In config dialog, using a form works because you are inside the main thread of xlobby.

Try to precreate your form using CreateControl method in the constructor of your plugin (or during the sethelper)

Then use showdialog in the event. (You will probably have to use Invoke mechanism instead of calling it directly)

[dalanik]

I already see improvement when I create it in the constructor! Cool! All of a sudden it is at correct position and size, on top and doesn't steal focus from xlobby...

THANX man!!!!

D.