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Old 10-20-2005, 10:23 AM
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msn has a flashing title bar when a message bar is recieved, how is this this acamplished, at the moment my winsock chat is beeping >.< which is bad for my mates who are music listening.
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Old 10-20-2005, 10:29 AM
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Try the FlashWindowEx API.
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Old 10-20-2005, 03:22 PM
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wont do me.setfocus or the putfocus or setfocus apis work ?
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Old 10-20-2005, 03:32 PM
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I suppose the best way of doing it would be an API but I have always used Me.SetFocus and it's usually always worked!
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