Newbie MFC question about giving windows focus.

[Vacindak]

Ok, I've written a program that minimizes to the system tray, however, I want it to pop up a dialog box when it receives a WM_TIMER message. At the moment, it works just fine except for one thing. The dialog box only pops up if the program isn't minimized. I know the program created the dialog because I put a MessageBeep(0); in the OnInitDialog() function and I hear it go off, but no window pops up.

I tried using the SetActiveWindow() function but that didn't work. I think that only applies to the multiple windows that a single application can open.

Note: I want the application to stay minimized, just the one dialog box to pop up.

I'm also wondering if making the dialog modeless instead of modal might help.

[dighn]

try calling .ShowWindow() on the dialog if that doesn't work try modaless dialoguebox

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