how to make a window to always on top of all the other window

hi

i created one window and i put some text which will scroll in the window.
what i want is this window should always be on top of every other windows which are opened.the user should be able to see the scrolling text in the window ,watever the user may be doing.please help me , how to do this.
its very urgent.

regards
vidhya

 

Use the API SetWindowPos to do the same.

 

thanks shabbir

 

i tried with SetWindowPos() , i am not clear about what value should pass to uflags argument,i tried with SWP_NOMOVE option. but then also if i open different window like IE or different winow of different application,it is not remaining on top.

the window which i created is like banner , i want the user should always able to see this banner window regardless of whichever window he may open.

please help me out to do this.

regards
vidhya

 

You need to have something like SWP_NOREDRAW | SWP_SHOWWINDOW

As a sample you can have it like

Code:

SetWindowPos(hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, width, height, SWP_NOREDRAW | SWP_SHOWWINDOW);

 

i tried with the same sample function.but it is not working.whenever i open new window like Internet Explorer or any other window it will not remain on top.the code is executing fine , but it is not working as i want.
do u know any solutions for this,please help me out.

 

The thing should be done with the SetWindowPos and if its not working something somewhere else is wrong.

 

thanks for reply. i will try once again with setwindowpos.
i want to know is this is the only way to do.

 

To make it topmost its the only possible way as far as I know.

 

ok . thank you.

 

hi . thanks a lot it is working properly now.

regards
vidhya

 

Umm - I'm guessing that you haven't tried the style
WS_EX_TOPMOST

Especially considered that SetWindowPos will only set it when you call it
Any window that opens up will open on top of it and you will need to call it again. Very inefficient it would be to constantly be calling SetWindowPos...