I have a mdi app that uses a remote control.  The remote just sends various keystrokes and works well but requires the app to have focus to recieve the commands.  The problem is that some users have things going on that take focus away from the program.  Since they're using a remote and away from the screen, they don't always see what's going on, they just know their remote has stopped working.  Actually, sometime they'll report the keyboard not responding as well.  They have some system things taking focus away.  I can't diagnose that over the phone but I've seen things like that happen on my own machine, so I know it's not an imaginary problem.  

I need something to keep my app on top WITH FOCUS.  I've found some things for SDI forms but nothing for MDI apps.  This is VB6 also, if it matters.  Can anyone help?

Well you can set the TopMost property to True to keep the form on top of all others. Also you could set a timer event just to ensure if the program did lose focus somehow that it regains it when the timer event is fired.

Sorry just noticed the VB6 part, no TopMost property....  There is an equivelant API call though to keep FormsOnTop

Take a look at this example, it contains some API calls to manage forms.

http://www.andreavb.com/tip050002.html

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