How can I programmatically determine if an application is flashing in the taskbar

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I can use "FlashWindowEx" to make a window flash in the taskbar, but what can I call to determine if that has been done to a window? Is there a flag that gets set somewhere that I can query?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 21 '08 at 18:03

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It's seems that such thing is not possible. However, there may be workarounds. For example, you may keep a boolean variable "flash = false". Then set it to "true" when you call FlashWindowEx and set to "false" in the situations in which applications typically gain focus.

References:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1846008&SiteID=1

answered Nov 21 '08 at 18:03

luiscubal

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Thanks - I was hoping there was a Win32 call I could use, but it doesn't look like it. – Jon Tackabury Jan 06 '09 at 13:35

How can I programmatically determine if an application is flashing in the taskbar

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