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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 22:23:28 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
CC: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: experimental new GUI setup
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> > I used ftp.freesoftware.com as the mirror to download from and it gave
> > me an error because there was 750 people logged in and the maximum was
> > hit.  Unfortunately, the error showed up *behind* the "Cygwin
> > Setup/Downloading/setup.ini/Connecting..." screen.
> 
> Hmmm, it showed up in front on mine.  I suppose I can force it with a
> suitable flag.

Chris is using W2K. Maybe that matters here. W2K has a
system variable which disallows for a configurable time
a switch to another apps window. Regardless if that app
tries to get a foreground window, it can't. You will
never see that behaviour on NT.

This is example code which disables that behaviour on W2K:

    OSVERSIONINFO os_version_info;
    os_version_info.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof (OSVERSIONINFO);

    GetVersionEx (&os_version_info);

    if (os_version_info.dwPlatformId == VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT &&
        os_version_info.dwMajorVersion >= 5) {
#ifndef SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT
#define SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT 0x2001
#endif
        SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT, 0, 0, 0);
    }

Hope, that helps,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company