The Old New Thing

AttachThreadInput is like taking two threads and pooling their money into a joint bank account, where both parties need to be present in order to withdraw any money

June 19, 2013 Jun 19, 2013 06/19/13

Raymond Chen

Consider this code: // Code in italics is wrong foregroundThreadId = ::GetWindowThreadProcessId(::GetForegroundWindow(), 0); myThreadId = GetCurrentThreadId(); if (foregroundThreadId != myThreadId) { AttachThreadInput(foregroundThreadId, myThreadId, TRUE); BringWindowToTop(myWindowHandle); If you try to ...