topic Making AutoCad the active window in VBA Forum

Making AutoCad the active window

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:29:15 GMT

Hi,

Ive wrote a 3d Parametric Engine in VB for AutoCAD that has a little toolbar that sits at the bottom of the screen..

I sort of cheated by resizing the AutoCAD windows height and dropping my toolbar at a fixed position at the bottom..

I would have liked to do an application like the microsoft office toolbar (if anyone knows how can you let me know)

But if I cant do that I would like to know how I can make the AutoCAD window the active window (like if someone has clicked it to bring to top)

Thanks

- Phil Barker
- Programmer
- Dexion Ltd.

Re: Making AutoCad the active window

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:02:47 GMT

You can create a "floating" window such as that used for the Microsoft Windows version 3.1 Clock by using the SetWindowPos Windows API call.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q84/2/51.ASP

Re:

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:08:18 GMT

This one was even better, but I realized you probably are
trying to make it a taskbar or somesuch. Well,
AlwaysOnTop is another way to do it..

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q184/2/97.ASP

You make something the active window with AppActivate, ex:

AppActivate "AutoCAD"