keep app on the bottom

[tesseract]

Im making an app that should stay on the desktop level, something like a wiget or gaget. how do i keep it at the bottom of the window stack?

 

[MattP]

VB 2005 Window Stay On Top? : Visual Basic General : Visual Basic : MSDN Forums

4th post has a VB.NET solution for you.

 

[tesseract]

i just tryed adding that code and no luck my window is still able to move to the top. What i want is something stuck to the desktop like an icon but i dont want it to get in the way so it must stay on the bottom

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

You want a form that's always at the bottom of the windows z-order? Usually you wouldn't be wanting to force it to never have focus, what does it do that it can't have focus?

 

[JohnH]

See my code sample in post 4 of this thread: http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/windows-forms/24775-restricting-movement-mdi-child.html
All you need to do is update the pos.hWndInsertAfter to HWND_BOTTOM when you receive a WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING message. HWND_BOTTOM is defined as follows:

Const HWND_BOTTOM As Int32 = 1