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<title>Keeping Add-in Windows in the Foreground</title>
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<meta name=MS-HKWD content="Add-ins, dialog boxes">
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<h1><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7.5pt;">SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional API Help</span></h1>
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<h1>Keeping Add-in Windows in the Foreground</h1>
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<div class=Section1>
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<body bgcolor=white lang=SV link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:65.2pt'>
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</body>
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<p><span lang=EN-US>When
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an add-in displays a dialog box, the add-in needs to keep the dialog box in
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front of whatever window launched it. Failure to do so may result
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in the dialog box disappearing and the user
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becoming confused. </span></p>
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<h2><span lang="en-us">C++</span></h2>
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<p><span lang=EN-US>To keep the dialog box in the foreground, you can
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specify a
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parent window handle when the new dialog box is created.</span></p>
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<h2><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US>VB.NET or C#</span></b></h2>
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<p><span lang="en-us">W</span><span
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lang=EN-US>indow handling is supported in
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<span class=SpellE>SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional</span> 6.4 and later. In <span
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class=SpellE>SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional</span> 6.4 only, you must also enable the
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Multithreaded Add-ins Threading policy. </span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-us">Unlike Visual Basic 6, </span><span
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lang=EN-US>VB.NET and C# allow you to create add-in modules that support
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multi-threading. When <span class="SpellE">
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SOLIDWORKS</span>
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PDM Professional runs a multi-threaded NET add-in, it executes it in the same thread
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as the parent window. Calls to <span
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class=SpellE>
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<a href="EPDM.Interop.epdm~EPDM.Interop.epdm.IEdmVault5~SetAddInWnd.html">IEdmVault5::SetAddInWnd</a></span>,
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which were previously recommended for Visual Basic 6, are no longer necessary.</span></p>
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<p><span
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lang=EN-US>To keep an add-in window in the foreground, call
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<a href="EPDM.Interop.epdm~EPDM.Interop.epdm.IEdmVault8~GetWin32Window.html">IEdmVault8::GetWin32Window</a>
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in the .NET form of your add-in to specify the handle of the parent window. </span></p>
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</div>
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